Post Office inquiry ends for ‘superfans’ gripped by the scandal

Carrie, 63, first heard about the Post Office scandal on the news before watching the ITV drama.

“Once I realised the inquiry was available daily on YouTube, I was off! I was on holiday last February and found myself listening to the personal accounts of sub-postmasters whilst sat on the beach with earbuds.”

She also listened to a lot of the Fujitsu engineers who were responsible for Horizon because she wanted to understand more about the bugs and errors in the software.

“I became somewhat obsessed and backtracked to catch up with a lot of the videos I realised I’d missed from earlier in the inquiry,” says Carrie, who is retired.

She tried to watch the inquiry daily and became a fan of Nick Wallis, a journalist who has been reporting on the scandal for years, even attending one of his tour days and buying his book.

She says former sub-postmasters and campaigners Sir Alan Bates and Jo Hamilton are two of her “inquiry heroes”, as well as Jason Beer, the lead counsel for the inquiry.

Mr Beer has emerged as an unlikely cult hero thanks to his grilling of key witnesses at the inquiry.

“He was fantastic to watch,” says Carrie.

She is now looking forward to reading the report by inquiry chair Sir Wyn Williams, which is expected to be published next year.

“I would dearly like to see a number of individuals prosecuted, though I doubt this will ever happen,” she says.