A wrongly convicted Upper Bucklebury sub-postmaster has opened up about his ordeal. Between 1999 and 2015, Post Office — once Britain’s most trusted brand — sacked and prosecuted more than 700 sub-postmasters nationwide for fraud and false accounting. Many lost their homes, livelihoods and even their lives. Among the victims was Hasmukh Shingadia, who received an eight-month suspended sentence for false accounting in 2010 when more than £16,000 vanished from the branch he had run since 1998 – all due to shortfalls produced by faulty accounting software. Mr Shingadia, now 63, had his conviction…
