Jun 25, 2024

Post Office: Wrongly jailed sub-postmistress rejects apology

A former sub-postmistress wrongly jailed while pregnant during the Post Office scandal has rejected an apology from an ex-Fujitsu engineer whose evidence helped convict her. Seema Misra told the BBC that a statement from Gareth Jenkins was "Too little, too late". At Mrs Misra's trial in 2010, Mr Jenkins failed to tell the court about a bug in the software which could have undermined the case against her. In a witness statement submitted to the Post Office Inquiry on Tuesday, Mr Jenkins said: "I did not know that Mrs Misra was pregnant at the time of her conviction and only learned of this many years later."This makes what has happened even more tragic. Mrs Misra said Mr Jenkins could have said sorry "ages ago" and there was no way he could understand what she went through.

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