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Manchester Evening News
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Chris Slater

Former Alderley Edge subpostmaster says his 'world fell in' after wrongly being labelled a criminal

A former Cheshire sub-postmaster says his 'world fell in' after he was wrongfully convicted of fraud due to a flawed computer accounting system

Scott Darlington, 59, from Macclesfield ran the Post Office on London Road in the Alderley Edge from 2005 until 2009.

However, his life was 'ruined' when he lost the role and then became one of the hundreds of subpostmasters across the country to be wrongly accused of theft and fraud during the Horizon scandal.

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