Sky to Air Murder at the Post Office Doc

A new three-part true-crime documentary, Murder at the Post Office, will air on Sky and NOW on December 29.

“Murder at the Post Office is a forensic piece of storytelling that examines the evidence, investigation and unanswered questions still debated around the murder of Diana Garbutt,” said Hayley Reynolds, head of documentary commissioning at Sky. “By sensitively drawing on a range of perspectives, it asks confronting questions about whether justice has been served.”

Murder at the Post Office is produced by Lightbox. The series director is Louise Malkinson, and the executive producers for Lightbox are Suzanne Lavery, Simon Chinn and Jonathan Chinn. It was produced by Jules Hawkins and Anita Stewart for Lightbox. The executive producers for Sky are Bruce Fletcher and Ziyaad Desai.

This series re-examines the case in which, in 2010, postmistress Diana Garbutt was found murdered in the post office she ran with her husband, Robin. Robin claimed he’d been the victim of a violent intruder, but as detectives probed further, suspicion began to fall on him. The series will feature voices on both sides: those convinced Robin was wrongfully convicted and others who are unsure and still suspect he is guilty.

“Producing Murder at the Post Office for Sky Documentaries, we were always mindful that at the heart of this story is the tragic loss of Diana Garbutt,” said Lavery, creative director at Lightbox. “Our aim was to approach her case with care while examining the questions that remain. With her husband’s conviction shaped in part by the now-discredited Horizon system, it felt essential to look again at what happened and whether justice was truly served.”