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Cheat!

Scammed By The State

Cheat!

Sony Music

True Crime, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

How did a trusted British institution manage to have over 600 people convicted for crimes they didn’t commit? In the early 2000’s, the UK Postal Service brought in a new IT system to manage accounts - Horizon. But when a serious amount of cash starts going unaccounted for, innocent employees are blamed. A Somethin’ Else & Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts To bring your brand to life in this podcast, email [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

A little over a decade ago, Nick Wallace was working as a journalist at BBC Surrey

0:14.3

in the southeast of England.

0:16.7

It's a county news radio station.

0:18.9

I had been appointed as the Breakfast Show presenter and I'd been there for just over a year

0:25.1

and I was kind of still really getting my feet under the table, dealing with lots of

0:29.7

local news stories.

0:31.4

One morning, Nick was scrolling through the BBC Surrey's Twitter feed when something

0:36.3

caught his eye.

0:38.6

I got a tweet which was quite intriguing and I followed it up with a DM and it eventually

0:44.2

led to a phone call with a man who told me that his pregnant wife had been thrown in

0:48.2

prison for a crime she didn't commit, which was not the usual sort of story we got at

0:54.3

BBC Surrey.

0:56.2

This man said his wife had worked at their local post office for over three years and then

1:01.0

one day out of the blue, she was fired for allegations of death.

1:05.9

She'd been accused of stealing 74,000 pounds so I went along to see him just to have a more

1:11.9

of an in-depth chat and record an interview with him and his story was compelling.

1:17.6

I mean, I hadn't got the resources to check it out but he seemed to be legit.

1:22.8

They agreed to keep in touch and Nick went back to work.

1:26.2

I went back to my boss and I said, look, I think there might be something here.

1:30.8

Nick started researching and turns out it wasn't just the one-off.

1:35.3

There were dozens of other people online who had similar claims.

1:38.7

They had all said they'd worked for the British post office, were accused of theft and

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