Post Office Chief Exec offers apology over "appalling suffering" to woman wrongly jailed
The chief executive of the Post Office has apologised to a woman for the "appalling suffering" caused when she was wrongly jailed as a victim of one of the country's most wide-scale miscarriages of justice.
Nick Read, delivered the apology to Telford's Tracy Felstead in person earlier this month – but has now spoken publicly about the meeting, and the moving impact of listening to her describe her experience.
Ms Felstead was wrongly jailed for six months in 2001 after being convicted of stealing more than £11,500 from the Post Office, where she worked as a counter clerk when she was 19.
She was one of scores of post office workers wrongly prosecuted because a faulty computer system called ‘Horizon’ had suggested they were responsible.
Ms Felstead had her conviction overturned on appeal along with countless other subpostmasters.
