Hundreds of the men and women who run local village Post Offices were wrongfully accused of taking money from their own tills.

They were bankrupted, hounded out of their jobs, or prosecuted - but it was later found the & #39;shortfalls& #39; were likely to be because of a computer glitch
Until recently we knew about 60 wrongful convictions that needed to be overturned.

To its credit Post Office has finally - after 20 years - opened its records to find out how deep the rot went.

900 cases is just extraordinary. There are 11,500 postmasters in the whole country!
A BBC R4 documentary broadcast on Wednesday will air new secret footage of her interview with Post Office managers.

She broke down as she said: & #39;I love my job, and I love my customers, why would I jeopardise that??& #39;

But they sacked her and dragged her to court anyway.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👩‍⚖️" title="Woman judge" aria-label="Emoji: Woman judge"> Today the Justice for Sub-Postmasters Alliance launched a crowdfunding campaign to help more victims overturn their convictions at Court of Appeal.

They want to raise an initial £25k so & #39;every unsafe conviction can be overturned.’

The link is here: https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/post-office-scandal/">https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/post...
The 12-part BBC documentary series The Great Post Office Trial is on weekdays on Radio 4 from tomorrow at 1.45pm and then on and BBC Sounds.

The episode about Sarah& #39;s story will air on Wednesday: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jf7j.">https://www.bbc.co.uk/programme...
Post Office has also put up a release about expanded review by independent law firm Peters & Peters into 900 convicted postmasters.

https://corporate.postoffice.co.uk/secure-corporate/supporting-our-postmasters/historical-prosecutions/

A">https://corporate.postoffice.co.uk/secure-co... reminder that this is in addition to 61 cases which have been, or are in process of being, sent to the Court of Appeal.
Summary of the numbers;

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đź“«" title="Closed mailbox with raised flag" aria-label="Emoji: Closed mailbox with raised flag"> c.65 of 550 postmasters who won settlement in December had convictions
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đź“«" title="Closed mailbox with raised flag" aria-label="Emoji: Closed mailbox with raised flag"> 39 have been sent to court of Appeal and 22 will shortly follow (these are believed to be mostly from above group)
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đź“«" title="Closed mailbox with raised flag" aria-label="Emoji: Closed mailbox with raised flag"> 900 & #39;potential& #39; wrongful convictions are being reviewed.
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