Post Office victims had lives 'utterly destroyed'

Sub-postmasters wrongfully prosecuted by the Post Office had their lives "Utterly destroyed" by the scandal, lawyers acting for them have said. Summing up, Tim Moloney KC, said 76 sub-postmasters had their convictions quashed "Only after having their lives utterly destroyed by the scandal at the heart of this inquiry". "For many, because none came, they stopped asking."Time and again their lives were ruined" by prosecution, he added, despite their telling the Post Office about the discrepancies and maintaining their innocence. Mr Moloney added the Post Office and Fujitsu, which supplied the software, were focused on their own commercial interests, including brand reputation, rather than on the interests of sub-postmasters. He said the inquiry had shown "disdain and dislike of sub-postmasters by the Post Office and their employees", underlined by a Post Office investigator saying sub-postmasters were "all crooks".

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