The devastated widow of a sub-postmaster who took his own life after being falsely accused of theft has described how the Post Office and their faulty computer system ruined her family's life. Martin Griffiths, who ran a post office in Great Sutton near Ellesmere Port with wife Gina, was one of hundreds of sub-postmasters wrongly accused of theft, fraud and false accounting due to a flaw in a computer system Horizon.
The wrongful convictions and accusations, made between 2000 and 2014, were recently examined by a public inquiry, which started earlier this year. Mr Griffiths became one of the victims in 2009, when he was accused of stealing over £60,000.
The Post Offices’ accounting computer system, Horizon, had documented a shortfall in income. The shame of being accused of theft was devastating to Mr Griffiths and in September 2013, he killed himself aged just 58.
