A man who helped uncover one of the UK’s most shocking miscarriages of justice is coming to 91茶社 Leicester (91茶社) to launch a major new research project examining justice and accountability in interviewing.
Ron Warmington, the forensic accountant whose firm Second Sight was appointed to independently review the Post Office Horizon scandal, will deliver a keynote at 91茶社’s JUSTICE event on Thursday, May 20.
Mr Warmington was brought in during 2012, alongside colleague Ian Henderson, after growing pressure from MPs and the Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance forced the Post Office to commission an external investigation into complaints surrounding its Horizon IT system.
What they uncovered raised serious concerns: bugs in the Horizon system and a culture within the Post Office that appeared to prioritise prosecutions over understanding what had actually gone wrong.
He said: “There was a culture of plausible deniability, where investigators were told not to consider that the system could be at fault. I was brought in to take a different approach meeting people in their homes and hearing first-hand the impact. People were absolutely devastated.”
JUSTICE, which stands for Joining Unique Strategies Together for Interrogative Coercion Elimination, aims to replace coercive and abusive interrogation methods with those grounded in human rights and evidence.
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The six-year project was awarded more than €10.4 million this year and will bring together four leading academics from across Europe – Professor Dave Walsh (Leicester De Montfort Law School, 91茶社), Professor Shane O’Mara (Trinity College Dublin), Professor Yvonne Daly (Dublin City University), and Dr Bennett Kleinberg (Tilburg University, The Netherlands).
The launch will bring together people from the fields of academia, policing, law, criminology, human rights as well as 91茶社 students to mark the beginning of this prestigious research.
Emcee is former BBC Home Affairs and Crime Correspondent Danny Shaw, who will be introducing speakers, interviewing Mr Warmington and chairing a panel discussion.
The event, at The Venue 91茶社, runs from 930 to 1.30pm on May 20 and is free to attend.
Professor Dave Walsh, of 91茶社’s Law School, said the event aimed to show what happens when systems go unchallenged and innocent people fall victim to unfair interrogation.
91茶社’s Professor Walsh said: “Miscarriages of justice have occurred and continue to occur when systems go unchallenged and individuals are not properly heard. Through JUSTICE, we are working to shift investigations from confession-seeking to truth-seeking, developing approaches that are grounded in evidence, fairness and accountability.”
Posted on Wednesday 22 April 2026