By Sam Greenhill for the Daily Mail
Published: 23:01 BST, 23 June 2019 | Updated: 23:01 BST, 23 June 2019
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Thrown into Britain's toughest women's jail as a teenager, she twice attempted suicide and is still traumatised two decades on.
Her crime was 'stealing' £11,500 from the post office where she worked – her first job after leaving school.
Tracy Felstead's horrific story is one of the most harrowing yet to emerge from the High Court trial in which more than 550 former post office workers are suing Post Office Ltd for ruining their lives.
They were accused of stealing from their branches, with many jailed as common thieves or made bankrupt. Yet evidence now suggests a computer accounting glitch meant the money was never missing in the first place.
Tracy Felstead, 36, was thrown into Britain's toughest women's jail as a teenager
Miss Felstead was barely out of school when she was thrown into HMP Holloway, north London – alongside killers and gangsters. She was plunged into depression and twice tried to kill herself. In the years that followed, she had her home repossessed, her marriage collapsed and she has recently been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Miss Felstead, now a 36-year-old mother-of-three, said: 'They didn't care that I was this scared girl. They didn't care that I'm sitting there in court, and I'm absolutely distraught, and my family are aghast. And I don't think they realise overall what they've actually done. Because still to this day
