We are calling for justice for Lee Castleton and all those affected by this gross miscarriage of justice. We demand that criminal charges be brought against all those involved in the cover-up of this scandal. It's time to hold those responsible accountable for their actions and provide restitution to the victims

Lee Castleton, a former sub-postmaster from East Yorkshire, is one of over 700 victims who were wrongfully convicted due to faulty Fujitsu accounting software known as Horizon.

Within a year of owning his Post Office branch, he noticed glitches on the computer system that eventually showed around £25,000 in discrepancies. This was not an isolated incident - hundreds of other Post Office branch managers experienced similar issues.

Seema Misra
Seema Misra was sentenced to 15 months in prison for theft and locked up on her son’s 10th birthday while eight weeks pregnant. She recalls being sent to a “horrendous” jail in Ashford, Surrey, Europe’s largest female prison, where she was placed on suicide watch after collapsing in court.

Among many other horrors she faced while incarcerated, Misra discovered a prisoner who had taken her own life and has said she would have killed herself in prison if she had not been pregnant. Misra gave birth to her second child in hospital wearing an electronic tag after she was released early for good behaviour.

It took 11 years to prove her innocence; she was cleared in 2021.

The 47-year-old post office operator from Surrey has told the inquiry into the scandal that Post Office bosses “acted like mafia” and said they had “blood on their hands”.

Her trial, in October 2010, became a test case for the reliability of Horizon, with her legal team telling the court that data from the computer accounting system could not be trusted.

While emails have revealed that Post Office lawyers had a report about a Horizon bug creating shortfalls at 40 branches in early October 2010, it was not disclosed to the defence at Misra’s trial later that month.

When she was convicted bosses celebrated. David Smith, then managing director, hailed her imprisonment as “brilliant news”.

These innocent individuals were given criminal convictions when it appeared money was missing from their shops due to these software errors. The lives and reputations of these hardworking people have been irreparably damaged by this scandal.

We are calling for justice for Lee Castleton and all those affected by this gross miscarriage of justice. We demand that criminal charges be brought against all those involved in the cover-up of this scandal. It's time to hold those responsible accountable for their actions and provide restitution to the victims

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