Lee Castleton

Jul 22, 2024 | postofficescandal.uk | Nick Wallis |Lee Castleton |Will Mellor

Surviving the Post Office (co-produced and co-directed by Hayley Hassall, who has previously reported on the story) has something of the travelogue about it. Will Mellor, who played former Subpostmaster Lee Castleton in the ITV drama Mr Bates vs the Post Office, presents. Mellor calls his role in the ITV drama “more important than any other” in his career.

Jun 26, 2024 | postofficescandal.uk | Gareth H. Jenkins |Lee Castleton |Seema Misra

On Tuesday Gareth Jenkins was quite certain he had no idea what the duties of an expert witness were until 2020. Today we discovered he was sent an email in 2006 explaining what the duties of an expert witness were, whilst he was being asked to provide evidence to the Post Office in preparation for the criminal trial of a Subpostmaster. Jenkins went on to be described as the Post Office’s expert witness in several prosecutions, including that of Seema Misra in 2010.

Jun 26, 2024 | postofficescandal.uk | Lee Castleton |Seema Misra |Warwick Tatford

We know that Gareth Jenkins, Fujtisu’s “unreliable god” (in the words of Anthony de Garr Robinson) does not have a PhD – despite being erroneously described as Dr Jenkins in the first Clarke Advice and a number of Post Office documents. He does, however, have a maths degree from Cambridge. We found out today he was not and never has been a Chief Architect of Horizon, nor has he ever been Fujitsu’s Lead Engineer on Horizon.

Jun 14, 2024 | podcasts.apple.com | Brooke Gladstone |Jonathan Freedland |Rebecca Thomson |Nick Wallis |Lee Castleton |Rachel Abrams

How US and UK elections influence each other; a British TV drama sheds light on a massive political scandal; meet the Redstones.

Mar 4, 2023 | postofficescandal.uk | Nick Wallis |Lee Castleton

Post Office v Castleton – a second category Abuse of Process? An extraordinary piece of evidence has been raised at the Post Office Horizon Inquiry. It came during the day long car crash which was Andrew Winn’s testimony. Winn was a hopelessly over-promoted former postie who eventually fetched up reporting to the Post Office’s Head of Product and Branch Accounting, Rod Ismay (author of the infamous Ismay report).