Sushma Blaggan's husband said the Post Office Horizon scandal 'destroyed our lives'
A former subpostmistress had her conviction relating to the Post Office Horizon scandal quashed in court this morning after a 20 year fight for justice.
A decade later, Mr Blaggan, who at one stage had three Post Offices, was also suspended from running the Monument Place Post Office in Liverpool, again over a shortfall in accounts. He was given six months to sell his branch, but with no income coming in to pay off the £110,000 loan he had taken out to buy it, he had to re-mortgage his home.
“I hope Ms Vennells was made aware that we were at the Inquiry today, and that we came straight from court. “We should have had answers and the full truth long ago, so we wanted to attend the Inquiry today to see if Ms Vennells would give us that. The next few days will tell, and if I could speak to her directly, I’d just say ‘can you please tell us the truth? Enough is enough. We all deserve and need answers now.”
“Today feels like a new start. We felt it was important to come to court to hear the conviction being quashed, and then to attend the Inquiry, as it is vindication to all that we have never done anything wrong.
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