Rab Thomson, who was wrongly accused of embezzlement but had his conviction overturned this year after a 20-year fight, penned a harrowing witness statement.
A wrongly-convicted postmaster has told a public inquiry of his fight for justice after the Horizon scandal shattered his life and “killed his mother with shame”.
The 65-year-old said: “What happened to me shattered me, hurt my wife and children and killed my mother with shame. The scandal is considered one of the most widespread British miscarriages of justice in modern times and is currently the subject of a long-running public inquiry. “I had been her ‘blue eyed boy’. What happened to me broke her heart; and her shame broke my heart also.
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Rab told the Record: “It takes a lot of pressure off to finally have my statement before the inquiry. Now everyone will know exactly what happened.
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