Post Office IT scandal victim calls for justice and punishment | UK | News
Post Office IT scandal victim calls for justice and punishment (Image: Getty) Gary Brown, 68, tried to kill himself and was wrongly accused of theft when his branch faced huge financial discrepancies created by the faulty Horizon software. He achieved his ‘dream’ of taking over a post office in August 2000 and spent 14 years running the branch in Rawcliffe, near Goole, East Yorks., with his wife Maureen, 66, while living in a six-bed home above the shop with their two kids. But over the years, they saw hundreds of pounds go missing from their books before these figures “spiralled out of control” and later reached £32,000. In 2014. Gary was ‘forced’ to admit he’d lost all the money and pay it back to the Post Office by selling his home for £125,000 less than its value to avoid two years in jail. On Wednesday, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called the scandal – which saw 736 branch managers wrongly convicted – “one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in our nation’s history.” Now Gary, who …