âI was standing in the dock and just wanted to hold his hand,â she said, recalling the moment when she was sentenced to 15 months in prison in 2010. âItâs hard to say but I think that if I had not been pregnant, I would have killed myself.â After becoming a post office operator in West Byfleet, Surrey, in 2005, she was suspended three years later after an audit found an accounting discrepancy of £74,000. Over two years she had attempted to balance her books, borrowing money and transferring takings, but failed to keep her head above water and was eventually jailed. Described in press reports at the time as a âpregnant thiefâ, she went to prison and her husband was beaten up by locals. Now Misra was looking forward to how the result would change her life, for example when confronted with questions about past convictions at the airport.