23: Ep 23 - Byers Beware

Investigating the Post Office Scandal

Our first former Secretary of State - Stephen Byers - and the first woman - Dr Sarah Graham - give evidence to Phase 2 of the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry. Nick and Rebecca have parsed the week's testimony to present all the newsworthy tidbits to you. We also promised lots of links - so in the order in which they are mentioned in the podcast:
Rebecca's first investigation for Computer Weekly in 2009: https://www.computerweekly.com/news
Tony Collins' excellent blog post on how a similar scandal is likely: https://ukcampaign4change.com/2022/10/07/most-of-the-underlying-causes-of-the-post-office-it-scandal-are-unfixable/
Karl Flinders' Computer Weekly piece on Horizon inquiry IT expert Charles Cipione's findings: https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252527436/Post-Office-scandal-inquirys-expert-IT-witness-troubled-by-his-findings
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