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By Press Association 2021 Post Office court case Some of the former subpostmasters who were wrongly convicted of offences went to jail and had to pay the money it was claimed they owed. Seema Misra, 45, who lives near Woking, Surrey, was eight weeks’ pregnant when she was jailed for 15 months in November 2010 after being found guilty of the theft of £74,600 and having previously admitted six counts of false accounting. She began running a post office in West Byfleet, Surrey, in 2005 and was suspended in 2008. She served less than four...

By Press Association 2021 Tom Hedges celebrates There were cheers, tears and even a few bottles popped outside the Royal Courts of Justice after dozens of former subpostmasters won a long-running battle to clear their names. Hundreds of subpostmasters were prosecuted for theft, fraud and false accounting because of the Post Office’s defective Horizon accounting system, which had “bugs, defects and errors” from the very outset. The Post Office knew that there were “serious issues about the reliability” of the Fujitsu-developed I...

By Press Association 2021 Post Office court case Former subpostmasters whose names have finally been cleared said the fight for justice against the Post Office over the Horizon scandal will continue. Thirty-nine former subpostmasters who were convicted and even jailed for theft, fraud and false accounting had their names cleared by the Court of Appeal on Friday. At a hearing last month, the court heard subpostmasters’ lives were “irreparably ruined” as they lost their jobs, homes and marriages after they were prosecuted by the Post...

By Press Association 2021 Coronavirus – Mon Apr 12, 2021 Dozens of former subpostmasters who were convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting due to the Post Office’s defective Horizon accounting system finally had their names cleared by the Court of Appeal on Friday. Here the PA news agency looks at the decades-long scandal and what happens next. – Who are the subpostmasters? Subpostmasters run Post Office branches, which are often situated inside a shop or other business, which the subpostmasters also run. Hundreds of subpo...

By Press Association 2021 Coronavirus – Mon Apr 12, 2021 Dozens of former subpostmasters who were convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting due to the Post Office’s defective Horizon accounting system finally had their names cleared by the Court of Appeal on Friday. Here the PA news agency looks at the decades-long scandal and what happens next. – Who are the subpostmasters? Subpostmasters run Post Office branches, which are often situated inside a shop or other business, which the subpostmasters also run. Hundreds of subpo...