The Post Office Scandal – The Human Cost

Presented by Nick Wallis, Award-winning TV and Radio Journalist

Nick Wallis, a well-known TV, radio and online journalist, has fronted several crime series for Channel 5, Spike TV and works as a freelance reporter for ITV and 5 News.

He has a long-running crime series on Channel 5 called ‘Caught on Camera’.  Nick is a regular correspondent on The One Show and was the first journalist to take BBC television cameras inside GCHQ.

Nick is perhaps best known for his work on The Post Office Horizon scandal. In 2020 he fronted a ten-part series for BBC Radio 4, a BBC Panorama and he co-wrote a Private Eye Special. Nick also runs the website ‘Post Office Trial’ and its successor, ‘Post Office Scandal’. In 2021 Nick published a book called The Great Post Office Scandal, published by Bath Publishing.

In 2020 Nick live-tweeted from the Johnny Depp Libel Trial at the High Court in London and covered the Depp v Heard trial in Virginia, US during April and May 2022. He has since published a book titled ‘Depp v Heard’.

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    The Post Office Scandal – The Human Cost

    Presented by Nick Wallis, Award-winning TV and Radio Journalist

    Nick Wallis, who published a book detailing this scandal, will take you through the jaw dropping facts of one of the UK’s most significant miscarriages of justice.

    Over a 20 year period, sub-postmasters complained about bugs in the Horizon system. However, The Post Office prosecuted 736 branch managers, at the rate of one a week for false accounting. Many lost their homes, savings, jobs and friends. Some went to prison, three committed suicide. In 2019 a High Court ruling found that the Horizon system was indeed floored. When The Post Office had found out the system was flawed, they covered it up.

    In April 2021, the Court of Appeal quashed the convictions of 39 former sub-postmasters and ruled their prosecutions were an affront to the public conscience. Since then, a further 550 have been quashed, but even now hundreds of victims have received no compensation and no one has been held accountable.