Seema Misra was eight weeks pregnant when she was sentenced to 15 months in jail for stealing from the Post Office branch she ran. The Mail can reveal that Cambridge maths graduate Mr Jenkins is a church treasurer and bowls player from Bracknell in Berkshire. He was made bankrupt after the Post Office pursued him through the civil courts over a £25,000 shortfall in his accounts. His claim that the Horizon system had caused the discrepancies was brushed aside. Two years of expensive litigation led to two bombshell judgments in 2019 revealing that shortfalls in Post Office accounts could indeed have been caused by computer glitches.

Source: The Nation November 21, 2020 03:02 UTC