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Solving the "unsolvable"

Forensic Accountants specialising in investigating complex fraud

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You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.

William Henry Hudson

Seeking the truth

Second Sight Investigations is a leading Forensic Accounting Firm that specialise in dealing with complex fraud and unravelling mysterious phenomena.

Our case with ‘The Post Office’ is now internationally recognised.

In 2012, Second Sight was appointed by Members of Parliament to investigate multiple assertions that the Post Office’s ‘Horizon’ computer system was generating spurious branch shortfalls and that sub-postmasters were being forced to pay the shortfalls and even prosecuted.

Despite attempts to force them to quit, Second Sight’s investigators revealed the ugly truth and the case received huge media attention following the record-breaking ITV drama: 'Mr Bates vs the Post Office' together with its related 'Real Story' documentary.

Watch ITV Drama

Where did all the money go?

'We don't expect to do our jobs without ruffling
a few feathers'

Ron Warmington - Chairman

Select Committee - Zahawi vs Vennells Feb 2015

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Select Committee - Zahawi vs Vennells Feb 2015

A clip from the ITV drama followed by the actual recorded footage of the Select Committee hearing. Zahawi questions Second Sight's Investigator Ian Henderson and challenges Vennells on the Post Office's lack of cooperation to disclose the prosecution files.

Newsnight Jan 10 2024

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Newsnight Jan 10 2024

Ron Warmington from Second Sight speaks out on News Night alongside wrongly accused subpostmasters about how they identified issues with The Post Office's Horizon system.

Channel 4 News 23 Jan 2024 Clip 1

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Channel 4 News 23 Jan 2024 Clip 1

Lord Arbuthnot speaks out against the treatment of the subpostmasters by The Post Office and the large-scale cover up that ensued.

Channel 4 News 19 Jan 2024 Clip 2

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Channel 4 News 19 Jan 2024 Clip 2

Wrongful convictions for subpostmasters discussed. Covert recordings reveal new findings about how the Post Office handled the case. Ian Henderson from Second Sight discusses the content of the tapes and Ron Warmington is quoted.

Channel 4 News 19 Jan 2024 Clip 1

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Channel 4 News 19 Jan 2024 Clip 1

Fujitsu admits Horizon system was flawed.

Channel 4 News 18 Jan 2024 Clip 2

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Channel 4 News 18 Jan 2024 Clip 2

Lee Castleton speaks up about Fujitsu

Channel 4 News 18 Jan 2024 Clip 1

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Channel 4 News 18 Jan 2024 Clip 1

The truth about the subpostmasters emerges

Media

Members of

Second Sight's Directors hold multiple memberships of professional bodies including:

To play, press and hold the enter key. To stop, release the enter key.

Press

"Their final report in 2015 summarised 19 'thematic issues' that they had found across all the cases, citing: everything from wholly inadequate training, to the likelihood of improper investigation and prosecution practices that were motivated by a desire to recover losses and that proceeded without the supporting evidence that would normally be needed, and a document that contemplated hiding a system bug, and the ways of correcting its impact, from subpostmasters."

Caroline Davies - The Guardian

"The findings published in Second Sight’s report for the Post Office included that the Post Office had failed to investigate unexplained losses and was too quick to take legal action against subpostmasters."

Karl Flinders - Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

"Defying Post Office attempts to frustrate them by blocking access to information such as error logs, Second Sight’s investigators Ron
Warmington and Ian Henderson soon found some real nasties under the stones. An interim report in the summer of 2013 showed that they
had diagnosed the two core issues: faulty IT and the victimisation of sub-postmasters"... "There were two ways Paula Vennells could react to Second Sight’s emerging findings. One was to accept them and open the way to justice for the sub-postmasters. The other was to feign concern while trying to bury what could be an expensive problem."

Richard Brooks and Nick Wallis

"Second Sight's final report raised concerns that 'in some circumstances Horizon can be systemically flawed from a user’s perspective'. Second Sight also said it had been unable to complete its investigation, pointing to legal challenges by the Post Office and its refusal to provide some documents."

Michael O'Dwyer and Peter Foster

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