Horizon scandal: wrongly convicted post office operator died from fall

Lynette Hutchings was one of 39 post office operators whose convictions were quashed by the court of appeal in 2021 due to flaws in the Horizon IT system. Photograph: Alicia Canter/The Guardian

A victim of the Post Office Horizon scandal who died before receiving final compensation or witnessing the current public outcry took a fatal fall after being diagnosed with a brain tumour, her inquest has heard.

Lynette Hutchings, 67, a former post office operator who was wrongfully convicted of false accounting in 2012, fell at her home in Hampshire and died in hospital in February last year, the inquest was told.