Between 1993 and 1999, the Post Office noticed sub-postmasters kept suffering cash losses - but assumed wrongdoing was the cause, a letter suggests
June Tooby with husband Ken on their golden wedding anniversary in 2017.
Kevan Jones, the Labour MP who has campaigned on behalf of Post Office victims for years, believes the letter suggests there may be “hundreds” of cases which pre-date Horizon and urged those who think they may have been affected to come forward. She died in 2020 having suffered severe financial and mental distress when the Post Office sacked her and pursued her in the civil courts for £55,000 plus interest.
However, Mrs Tooby also kept numerous staff bulletins sent out by the Post Office’s Capture team detailing bugs and errors with the system and how they could cause accounting errors. Another former sub-postmaster Steve Marston, 68, was convicted of offences of theft and false accounting in 1998 when auditors found an alleged shortfall of around £79,000 at his branch in Heap Bridge, Greater Manchester.
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