A former Post Office worker wrongly convicted of fraud during the Horizon scandal has been cleared by the Court of Appeal.
Jacqueline Falcon, 42, was accused of reversing transactions on the faulty accounting software between December 2014 and February 2015 while working at Hadston Post Office in Northumberland.
Ms Falcon, a former Post Office clerk, had been trying to cover up a shortfall of almost £1,000 in the branch’s accounts which she had not taken and could not explain, the court heard.
She was handed a three-month prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, and ordered to pay £933.69 in compensation after pleading guilty to fraud at Newcastle Crown Court in 2015.
In London on Tuesday, senior judges ruled her conviction was unsafe because Post Office failures meant her trial was unfair.
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