A former sub-postmistress fighting for justice after being accused by the Post Office of stealing £40,000 has shared her relief at the news she will be compensated.
Shazia Saddiq was running the Ryton Post Office in Gateshead and Westgate Hill Post Office in Newcastle when she was wrongly accused of stealing from the Westgate Hill branch by the Post Office and suspended in October 2016.
The 38-year-old from Scotswood, Newcastle, told Post Office officials a fault in the Horizon IT system, that was linked to the ATM in the branch, meant it would give false readings, but she said, "they wouldn't listen".
