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It's now emerged that hundreds of former post office workers had been mistakenly accused of stealing, with dozens convicted in court and others jailed
RUTH SUNDERLAND: Any miscarriage of justice takes a terrible toll. Innocent individuals have their lives ripped apart, marriages are broken, finances ruined and reputations in the gutter.
People vs. Post Office will be 4 60-min episodes about the Post Office scandal Will address the 'greatest miscarriages of justice in British legal history', ITV say From 1999-2015 thousands of postmasters accused of stealing from their tills But the 'losses' were caused by computer glitches on Post Office Horizon system Court of Appeal ruled in favour of 39 postmasters falsely branded criminals
Ordained priest Paula Vennells was last seen at her multi-million pound home in Bedfordshire last Friday She made £4.5million in seven years, got a CBE and had boardroom jobs with Dunelm and Morrisons Mrs Vennells has now quit all her public roles, including with the Church of England after the scandal Calls for her to be investigated as 39 postmasters wrongly convicted of stealing amid flaws of IT system
Noel Thomas spent his 60th birthday behind bars. Tracy Felstead was jailed and plunged into a depression, twice trying to kill herself. Martin Griffiths, hounded by Post Office auditors, actually did – leaving a note of apology to his family before stepping in front of a bus. All these and hundreds more blameless former postmasters and postmistresses were pillars of their village communities until being preposterously branded crooks and having their lives torn apart. Former post office worker Janet Skinner (centre), with her niece Hayley Adams (right) and her daughter Toni Sisson, celebrati...