Page 94, the Private Eye podcast.

Hello, our Paul Foot Award 2025 miniseries is drawing to a close.

Today is the final shortlistee, and then we'll be coming back tomorrow with the winner.

But before that, let's hand over and find out who today's shortlistee is and what their story is all about.

My name is Abby Wissants, and I work for the Liverpool Post.

So I did a Goliath four-part investigation with the rest of my team into the big help project,

which is charity in Liverpool, that had put vulnerable people into terrible living conditions.

And the owner of the charity, who was an ex-Labour Councillor,

had also misappropriated millions of

pounds from that charity and invested it into companies that he privately owned with his wife.

It's quite a powerful.

How did this story first cross your desk?

So it was quite a long time. I think it was nine months before the first investigation came out.

So it was certainly very drawn out kind of period

investigating it a woman had emailed me saying that she was living in terrible conditions and she wanted me to

look into it we obviously get a lot of emails like that in the climate that we live in a lot of people

live in dreadful conditions especially people who live in social housing and supported housing but because

i'd only just started

working for the post and I was young and I was excited and a budding reporter, I was like, I'm

going to go out to every single email that I get and try and pick up and chase any leads. And I went

for a coffee with her and immediately, I think I was struck by both how upset she was and she was

telling me how the person that she'd lived next door to had committed suicide and his body wasn't found for a really long time, which I thought sounded unusual for someone that was supposed to be, you know, supported.

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