Nicky Campbell sobs reside on air with wrongly jailed Post Office sufferer aged 77

A BBC presenter broke down in tears reside on air after listening to the heart-breaking story of a Post Office scandal sufferer.

Nicky Campbell was listening to the real-life story of Karen Jolliffe, a former sub-postmistress who was jailed after being accused of stealing from her Post Office department, as she appeared on his BBC 5Live radio present when he wiped away tears.

More than 700 sub-postmasters had been wrongly convicted of false accounting, theft and fraud based mostly on the Horizon IT system which made it seem like money was lacking

The 77-year-old former put up mistress, who lives close to Farnborough, had been working her Post Office for 20 years when the Horizon IT system was first put in in 2000. But when the system indicated she was working at a lack of a number of thousand kilos, she tried to hide it fairly than confront the Post Office.

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“I wasn’t brave like all the other postmasters. I wish I was braver,” she advised Nicky. “I hid it and moved money around from the shop to the Post Office for about 18 months, two years. I knew I was going to be audited and when they came out I just confessed.”

Karen later described herself as feeling “so stupid” having by no means thought the pc system may have brought on the errors. She continued: “I by no means thought it was Horizon. It by no means entered my head it will be a pc.

“I felt so stupid when I looked at Mr Bates and how he’d worked it out. Why didn’t I? I’m not a stupid person really.”

The scandal has been public information for a while with a public inquiry ongoing, an ITV drama – Mr Bates vs The Post Office – which aired final week thrust the difficulty again into the highlight.

At Prime Minister’s Questions earlier, Rishi Sunak mentioned these affected had been victims of “one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in our nation’s history”.

Alan Bates, who led a bunch authorized case towards the Post Office to reveal the reality about Horizon and the Post Office’s cowl up of points with the software program, is portrayed by Toby Jones within the ITV drama.

He stars alongside Monica Dolan, who performs Jo Hamilton, a former sub-postmistress wrongfully convicted in 2008 of stealing 1000’s from a village store in South Warnborough, Hampshire.

Ms Jolliffe confessed to the BBC: “I wasn’t brave like that Jo… I should’ve done what she did.” Ms Jolliffe claims the ordeal had a devastating influence on her household, saying: “My grandson was eight. He was bullied at school.”

However, her household and members of the group continued to indicate their assist for her. As he listened to Ms Jolliffe’s story, Campbell was seen wiping away tears.

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On Tuesday the disgraced former Post Office boss Paula Vennells has agreed at hand again her CBE “with immediate effect”. She mentioned she was “truly sorry for the devastation caused” by the Horizon laptop scandal.

Ms Vennells ran the Post Office whereas it routinely denied there was an issue with Horizon. Over 1.2million individuals signed a petition demanding she lose her honour.

ITV‘s 4 half mini-series in regards to the scandal, Mr Bates vs the Post Office, first aired on January 1 and might be streamed on-line on ITVX.