"A fascinatingly detailed and devastating account of the one of the largest miscarriages of justice the UK has seen. "
This vitally important book blows open the details of the Post Office Scandal. Between 2000 and 2015 more than 700 people were given criminal convictions using electronic data from a computer system called Horizon. This woefully inadequate system produced information about crimes that didn’t exist, and when the Post Office realised, there was an off the scale cover-up. Innocent people were sent to prison and lives were ruined.
The author Nick Wallis is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster, and over the last ten years he has investigated the scandal and describes the book as: “an attempt to unravel exactly what went wrong, and determine who is to blame. It also documents the heroics of those who fought long and hard against a powerful and well-resourced opponent to get the truth into the public domain. It’s quite a story”.
At over 500 pages this is a bit of a whopper, but so it should be, it is fully fitting with the number of years spent investigating and trying to support the appeals. This book brings to vivid life the devastating effects of this scandal, the continuing work of those who supported the victims, and the turning of the screw on the Post Office and justice system itself. The timeline at the end is fascinating, and makes for chilling reading in its paired down factual form. One of the innocent people convicted of theft, Seema Misra, says in her foreword: “Reading this book made me cry. Nick brings to life what the Post Office did to me and to my family in a way that makes reading it feel like re-living it. It is a story which broke my heart”. Chosen as a LoveReading Star Book, The Great Post Office Scandal is a compelling and heartbreaking read that our team highly recommends.
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