Post Office inquiry: Ex-postmistress blames people ‘not computers’
A former sub-postmistress has spoken to the BBC about the impact of being falsely accused of stealing more than GBP12,000.
Gail Ward, from Wells in Somerset, saved up and paid all the money in full, but was still taken to court, convicted and sentenced to 150 hours of community service.
Hundreds were wrongly prosecuted between 1999 and 2015 after a faulty computer system called Horizon made it look like money was missing from accounts.
But Mrs Ward said it is not a ‘Horizon scandal’ because it is people who ruined her life, not a computer system.
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