The prosecutor who took a wrongly-convicted Scottish postmaster to court made the decision based entirely on a report by Post Office investigators, an inquiry has heard.
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An ex-sub postmaster who was pushed to the brink of suicide says former chiefs have "blood on their hands" and should face punishment.
Gary Brown, 68, tried to kill himself after he was embroiled in the Post Office IT scandal which saw him wrongly accused of theft by the faulty Horizon software. For 14 years Gary ran the Post Office branch in Rawcliffe, East Yorkshire, alongside his wife Maureen, 66.
However, over time the branch saw hundreds of pounds go missing, with the figures eventually spiralling "out of control" and later reaching £32,000. Gary says he was 'forced' to admit he'd lost all the money. In order to avoid two years in jail he had pay the cash back to the Post Office by selling his home for £125,000.
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Gary, who has to take up to 14 different pills a day for various stress-related illnesses, said: "Everybody is pointing the finger at [Ex-Post Office chief executive Paula] Vennells, and she deserves everything she gets, but there were a lot more people involved. I’d weed them all out, but I don’t think it’s going to happen. It will cost too much money to do that.
“I don’t think there’s anyone with clean hands. They’ve got blood on their hands, a lot of them. They nearly had mine on their hands.”
Maureen said: "These people are evil anyway, will it have any effect on them? They do have blood on their hands.
"People have died because of it, and [other] people have died not necessarily directly because of what’s happened, but it has exacerbated it. Their time - it’s made it shorter, and they’ve not been able to live longer.”
Gary and Maureen cashed in their life savings of taking over the Rawcliffe Post office in August
The prosecutor who took a wrongly-convicted Scottish postmaster to court made the decision based entirely on a report by Post Office investigators, an inquiry has heard.
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