{"id":6522,"date":"2022-02-22T10:05:12","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T10:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/2022\/02\/22\/nick-wallis-man-who-helped-amplify-story-uks-largest-ever-miscarriage-justice\/"},"modified":"2022-02-22T10:05:12","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T10:05:12","slug":"nick-wallis-man-who-helped-amplify-story-uks-largest-ever-miscarriage-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/nick-wallis-man-who-helped-amplify-story-uks-largest-ever-miscarriage-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Wallis: the man who helped amplify the story of the UK&#8217;s largest ever miscarriage of justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both;\">\n<p paraeid=\"{cbff9cf8-ded6-4bce-8995-184d02f3c513}{225}\" paraid=\"1485931262\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nickwallis.com\/\">Nick Wallis<\/a>, the man who brought&nbsp;the Post Office scandal, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=largest+miscarriage+of+justice+in+the+UK&amp;rlz=1C1VDKB_en-GBGB988GB988&amp;sxsrf=APq-WBv7g9z6-QQTZv9wtFJb1l_tFkxP2g:1645525801227&amp;source=lnms&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiM8eamjZP2AhXbQUEAHVWtAsAQ_AUoAHoECAEQAg&amp;biw=1920&amp;bih=969&amp;dpr=1\">largest miscarriage of justice in British legal history<\/a>, into the national discourse speaks to The Northern Quota.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{cbff9cf8-ded6-4bce-8995-184d02f3c513}{225}\" paraid=\"1485931262\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">He&#8217;s wearing a sharp suit with a haircut that is effortlessly dishevelled in the most stylish way.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{cbff9cf8-ded6-4bce-8995-184d02f3c513}{225}\" paraid=\"1485931262\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">He approaches with a youthful energy and a playfulness that belies the serious work he has done in helping to amplify the story.<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{cbff9cf8-ded6-4bce-8995-184d02f3c513}{225}\" paraid=\"1485931262\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Once we start talking about his work, it&#8217;s clear he has an in-depth working knowledge of the legal case and the personal destruction visited upon sub-postmasters.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image file-default media-element\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A photograph on Post Office Sign. \" data-delta=\"1\" data-fid=\"8186\" data-media-element=\"1\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/437\/2022\/02\/post_office_-_clean_sign.jpeg\" title=\"A photo of the Post Office logo. \" width=\"600\"><figcaption>The Post Office has come in for severe criticism<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p paraeid=\"{cbff9cf8-ded6-4bce-8995-184d02f3c513}{225}\" paraid=\"1485931262\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><strong>At what point did you know this was a story?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{cbff9cf8-ded6-4bce-8995-184d02f3c513}{225}\" paraid=\"1485931262\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Nick had been working in local radio when he was approached by a taxi firm offering to take on the contract for the broadcast outlet.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{cbff9cf8-ded6-4bce-8995-184d02f3c513}{225}\" paraid=\"1485931262\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Because local radio didn&#8217;t have the money to pay for a contract, he jokingly responded that he would give them a contract if the taxi firm would &#8220;give them some stories&#8221;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{cbff9cf8-ded6-4bce-8995-184d02f3c513}{225}\" paraid=\"1485931262\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">That&#8217;s when he received&nbsp;a message from a taxi driver&nbsp;named Davinda Misra, who said he had a story about a friend who had lost everything to a faulty accounting system at the Post Office.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{cbff9cf8-ded6-4bce-8995-184d02f3c513}{225}\" paraid=\"1485931262\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Nick was directed to an article by Computer Weekly, who first broke the story,&nbsp;and a campaigning organisation&nbsp;which had already looked into the case.&nbsp;<span data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">\n<p paraeid=\"{f8503968-52b1-41f6-bb2e-2883fbb2cb1f}{200}\" paraid=\"463623371\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">&#8220;If the information is already out there and there is an organisation already campaigning, and Davinda didn&#8217;t sound like he was trying to pull the wool over anybody&#8217;s eyes, at the very least I should go see him,&#8221; said Nick.<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{f8503968-52b1-41f6-bb2e-2883fbb2cb1f}{200}\" paraid=\"463623371\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Nick went to see him and started &#8220;pushing him for details&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{f8503968-52b1-41f6-bb2e-2883fbb2cb1f}{200}\" paraid=\"463623371\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">After deciding there was something worth investigating, Nick took it to his colleagues.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{f8503968-52b1-41f6-bb2e-2883fbb2cb1f}{200}\" paraid=\"463623371\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">&#8220;I checked all the details and made sure everything was absolutely correct and then sent of an email,&#8221; he says.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{f8503968-52b1-41f6-bb2e-2883fbb2cb1f}{200}\" paraid=\"463623371\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">&#8220;I got a reply, if not that day&nbsp;the day after, saying &#8216;that sounds really interesting.&nbsp;I&#8217;ll put two of my best producers on it and, if it stands up we&#8217;ll run with it.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image file-default media-element\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nick Wallis reads from his book &quot;The Great Post Office Scandal&quot;\" data-delta=\"1\" data-fid=\"8188\" data-media-element=\"1\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/437\/2022\/02\/nick_wallis_reads_po_scandal_2022_0.jpeg\" title=\"Nick Wallis in Manchester with his book \" width=\"600\"><figcaption>BBC reporter Nick Wallis reading from his book on the Post Office scandal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p paraeid=\"{f8503968-52b1-41f6-bb2e-2883fbb2cb1f}{200}\" paraid=\"463623371\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><strong>Why did the news story come in and out of the news cycle?&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">\n<p paraeid=\"{d5fe6f57-1376-4a91-9bbf-5606ca91a189}{22}\" paraid=\"1796270338\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cThere are brilliant journalists doing brilliant things.&nbsp;The BBC, Private Eye, the Daily Telegraph sporadically, and the Daily Mail more-so recently,&nbsp;but also sporadically, have looked into the scandal.<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{d5fe6f57-1376-4a91-9bbf-5606ca91a189}{22}\" paraid=\"1796270338\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">&#8220;The story is there, they get periodically interested because there&#8217;s nothing to sustain it.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{d5fe6f57-1376-4a91-9bbf-5606ca91a189}{22}\" paraid=\"1796270338\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">However, Nick says that between 2015 and 2018 there were very few media outlets reporting what was happening. &nbsp;may be because it was both a&nbsp;difficult story to cover and because &#8220;the Post Office went out of its way to try to pressure, refute and deny everything the postmasters were saying&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{d5fe6f57-1376-4a91-9bbf-5606ca91a189}{22}\" paraid=\"1796270338\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><strong>When did you realise something was going seriously wrong rather than simply a few mistakes being made?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">\n<p paraeid=\"{84ef5603-704e-45d6-b669-20cc5f98545c}{60}\" paraid=\"935136887\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">\u201cThe first time I knew there was something seriously wrong was when an internal post office investigation of <\/span>a postmaster&nbsp;charged with theft found that there was \u2018no evidence of theft\u2019. So, an internal investigation&nbsp;at the post office wrote an official report \u2018no evidence of theft\u2019 yet, at the same time, the postmaster&nbsp;was charged with theft.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">\n<p paraeid=\"{77524fc1-8ea3-40d4-a345-5236fccc561a}{3}\" paraid=\"1803795766\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">&#8220;So, it&#8217;s a really important question: &#8216;who knew what when?&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">\n<p paraeid=\"{77524fc1-8ea3-40d4-a345-5236fccc561a}{134}\" paraid=\"1749107950\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">\u201cOver the next year we will hear form executives at Fujitsu, the post office, the civil service and the government who will have to give evidence under oath<\/span>. Then, hopefully, we will start to find out exactly what they knew, t<span data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">o get an understanding of what was going on behind the scenes, not just while they were prosecuting sub-postmasters but,&nbsp;when they <\/span>realised they had unsafe prosecutions, they covered them up.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{77524fc1-8ea3-40d4-a345-5236fccc561a}{134}\" paraid=\"1749107950\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">\n\t\t<strong>How did Fujitsu (the company who built the faulty Horizon accounting system) manage to deflect blame for the software?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">\n<p paraeid=\"{e4d65677-9e4f-469e-a809-a110eaf6ee65}{197}\" paraid=\"1099349950\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">\u201cBy keeping their heads down and saying nothing<\/span>. They made the point that they ran the computer systems but that was all.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">\n<p paraeid=\"{75ce6c84-eecd-4f36-8739-04dff24c70e6}{115}\" paraid=\"1388997405\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><strong><span data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">Did you get a moral buzz from helping the postmasters get justice, or is it purely professional?<\/span>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">\n<p paraeid=\"{60b34a8e-c98f-4f6b-974a-a82ddf35a14d}{139}\" paraid=\"1729103351\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">\u201cI\u2019m just doing my job<\/span>. My job is to report stuff that I see as being interesting.<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{60b34a8e-c98f-4f6b-974a-a82ddf35a14d}{139}\" paraid=\"1729103351\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">&#8220;I never risked anything. There are people who have risked everything, their careers, their reputations to get this story out there. All I\u2019ve done is picked it up and ran with it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">\n<p paraeid=\"{2ceffca3-db61-4315-86e1-22056bc47fb8}{124}\" paraid=\"536086028\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">\u201cI was so lucky this incredible story fell in my lap and I was in a position where I was able to <\/span>persuade a brilliant editor.\u201d &nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">\n<p paraeid=\"{a873e8a9-1a75-4873-9cb6-46976f68bd6f}{7}\" paraid=\"429245453\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><strong><span data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">How far do you think you can go, when objectively something bad has happened, to say this is \u2018bad\u2019 as opposed to \u2018this just happened&#8217;?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">\n<p paraeid=\"{d786d2a0-0aa5-468e-9aac-1439a7fae966}{63}\" paraid=\"2060988453\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">\u201cUntil the 2019, when the first judgement came down, I would just say this is what <\/span>they\u2019re saying and this is what everyone else is saying.<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{d786d2a0-0aa5-468e-9aac-1439a7fae966}{63}\" paraid=\"2060988453\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">&#8220;Obviously, I was reporting it&nbsp;where I have a legal responsibility to be contemporaneous, accurate and fair, so I wasn\u2019t making any value judgments.<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{d786d2a0-0aa5-468e-9aac-1439a7fae966}{63}\" paraid=\"2060988453\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">&#8220;When a high court judge, on 15<span data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">&nbsp;March 2019, <\/span>basically endorsed the sub-postmasters&#8217; position in extraordinary detail, colour&nbsp;and damning language, then you can make a value judgement.<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{d786d2a0-0aa5-468e-9aac-1439a7fae966}{63}\" paraid=\"2060988453\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">&#8220;I\u2019m not saying this because I think it is true, I\u2019m saying it because this&nbsp;is true, because a high-court judge has said it\u2019s true after examining all the facts.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image file-default media-element\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nick Wallis with Manchesterr University chancellor and two postmasters affected\" data-delta=\"4\" data-fid=\"8189\" data-media-element=\"1\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/437\/2022\/02\/pete_tom_chancellor_and_nick_2022_po_0.jpeg\" title=\"Nick Wallis, two postmasters and the chancellor of Manchester University together \" width=\"600\"><figcaption>Left to right: Tom Hedges, Lemn Sissay, Pete Murray and Nick Wallis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p paraeid=\"{d786d2a0-0aa5-468e-9aac-1439a7fae966}{63}\" paraid=\"2060988453\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Nick Wallis has his own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nickwallis.com\/\">professional website<\/a> and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postofficescandal.uk\/blog\">blog about The Post Office Scandal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Wallis, the man who brought&nbsp;the Post Office scandal, the largest miscarriage of justice in British legal history, into the national discourse speaks to The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1416,"featured_media":6518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4973,1],"tags":[1196,4720,4712,4743,4742,4744],"class_list":["post-6522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-uncategorised","tag-manchester-university","tag-nick-wallis","tag-post-office","tag-postmasters","tag-scandal","tag-subpostmasters"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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