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'My late husband was destroyed by the Post Office scandal - he will never see justice'


A widow has opened up about the impact the Post Office scandal had on her late husband, who was wrongly arrested over a 'missing' £46,000 while in charge of a Newcastle branch

A widow has spoken of the "devastating" impact the 2009 Post Office scandal had on her late husband – a sub-postmaster who was forced to plead guilty to false accounting, despite doing nothing wrong. Marion Holmes' late husband Peter, who passed away in 2015, was in charge of the Jesmond Post Office in Newcastle when he was arrested over a 'missing' £46,000 due to the faulty Horizon computer system. Read MoreRelated Articles Success for Mr Bates as Post Office boss hands back CBE after ITV drama

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