By Press Association 2021 Post Office court case Some of the former subpostmasters who were spared jail lost their livelihoods, homes and their good reputations after being wrongly convicted of offences despite being innocent. Tom Hedges, who was convicted of theft and false accounting and given a seven-month suspended sentence in 2011, opened a bottle of prosecco outside the Royal Courts of Justice after his conviction was quashed. He said: “It’s a wonderful afternoon. When I told my mother, who’s 93, I was coming to court she said ‘get yourself down to Aldi and get some prosecco’. “She said: ‘Just remember your name is Hedges not Rothschild, so get prosecco, not Bollinger!’”