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£100 out here, £200 there. harjinder told me he had raised concerns, but nothing had ever been resolved. until one day, he was arrested and charged with theft of £208,000 and taken to the crown court. it was in my head that the jury would be on my side and i was going to get cleared. because i'm telling the truth, you know. and i thought, i'll be all right, i know how the jury system works, and all that. i've never been in trouble on that side. because he continued to plead not guilty, he was given what is thought to be the longest sentence of anyone wrongly blamed in this scandal. three ye...

More than 2,000 people lost their businesses, were driven into bankruptcy because of this, and more than 700 were convicted, received criminal convictions, many were sent to prison as a result. and for them, it is notjust about getting those convictions overturned, or receiving financial compensation, but finding out why the post office held onto that belief that they could still use the software, as a basis for conviction, even though there were faults known within that system at the time. that's what this inquiry is trying to get to the bottom of, but it's going to take more than a year befo...

Harjinder told me he had raised concerns, but nothing had ever been resolved. until one day, he was arrested and charged with theft of £208,000 and taken to the crown court. it was in my head that the jury would be on my side and i was going to get cleared. because i'm telling the truth, you know. and i thought, i'll be all right, i know how the jury system works, and all that. i've never been in trouble on that side. because he continued to plead not guilty, he was given what is thought to be the longest sentence of anyone wrongly blamed in this scandal — three years and three months. his ...

Fraud and false accounting due to a flaw in the computer system they were using. ahead of the inquiry, the sub—postmaster thought to have been given the longest prison sentence has been talking to our business correspondent colletta smith. harjinder butoy ran a post office with his wife in nottinghamshire, but he's spent the last 14 years fighting to clear his name. charged with stealing £208,000, he was sentenced to three years and three months in prison for a crime he didn't commit. they found me guilty on ten counts out of the 11. that's when everything just... like you're hearing voices...

Harjinder butoy ran a post office with his wife barbinder in nottingham forfive years. and then, out of the blue, he was arrested and charged with stealing £208,000. i can still hear it to this day, that cell door slamming behind me. it's very, very hard, when you know you've not done anything. it's not like i got three years, to me it's like i got a iii—yearjail sentence, because i still was trying to clear my name. harjinder had three children under ten. and his sentence is thought to be the longest of anyone involved in this scandal, because he stuck to his not guilty plea. it's so heart...