Lee Castleton was left broke after the Post Office spent £320,000 pursuing him over false losses.
A postmaster says the Post Office spent £320,000 suing him over £25,000 he was falsely accused of stealing.
Despite calling the Post Office's helpline nearly every day for three months, he said:"We just couldn't understand where the losses were coming from." The agreement was reached in December last year, when the High Court ruled that technical problems with the Post Office's Horizon IT system could instead be to blame for losses - something Mr Castleton and the other claimants had always believed was the case.Internally, some Post Office staff had also grown concerned about what was happening.
"The people running our stores were being arrested going to prison, losing their life savings, having massive mental health issues. It felt as though doing the right thing no longer mattered, it was all about saving the image of the Post Office".
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