Former counter clerk Tracy Felstead, from Telford, was wrongly jailed for six months in 2001 , while Rubbina Shaheen, who kept Greenfields post office in Shrewsbury, was wrongly jailed for 12 months in 2010. Both convictions were overturned on appeal.
The study by the University of Exeter and University College London aims to shed light on the impact of legal professionals involved in convicting scores of innocent post-office workers between 1999 and 2015.
The Government announced a compensation scheme in March this year for 555 victims of the scandal, who won a £43 million High Court settlement against the Post Office in 2019. Most of the prosecutions were brought privately, based on computer evidence presented by the Post Office, rather than going through the police and Crown Prosecution Service.
The Post Office began installing Horizon accounting software in the late 1990s, but faults in the software led to shortfalls in accounts, which sparked demands on sub-postmasters to cover the difference. Miss Felstead, now 40, of Bournside Drive, Brookside, Telford, said she had mixed feelings about the culpability of the legal system in her conviction.
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