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Wrongfully convicted sub-postmistress Janet Skinner has said she wants 'justice' and 'accountability' for the the Post Office scandal that led to her spending months in a drug-infested jail cell.
The 52-year-old was forced to endure a prison sentence in 2007 over an alleged shortfall of £59,000 from her Post Office in Hull.
Ms Skinner told BBC Newsnight what she wanted to happen to those responsible for the miscarriage of justice that saw more than 700 Post Office branch managers falsely accused of stealing.
She told Victoria Derbyshire she wanted 'arrests, people held accountable, sent to prison, having confiscations made against them, losing all their assets, the same way we've been treated.
She added: 'I lost my job in 2006 and I was sent to prison in February of 2007.
Janet Skinner who was wrongfully convicted of stealing from The Post Office has demanded s 'justice' and 'accountability' and said she wants those responsible to be treated 'the same way we've been treated'
She told Victoria Derbyshire she wanted 'arrests, people held accountable, sent to prison, having confiscations made against them, losing all their assets'
The mother of two served a jail sentence following a roundup of 230 former postmasters and postmistresses in one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in Britain's recent history
'I lost everything in the space of six months. They had no evidence to prove theft.
'How much more evidence do they need to take against the Post Office?'
The mother of two served three months of a nine-month sentence following a roundup of 230 former postmasters and postmistresses jailed in one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in Britain's recent history.
Although her conviction was overturned in 2021, Ms Skinner said the scandal has ruined her life.
She is now disabled and reliant on benefits due to her finances being crushed in the wake of the wrongful fraud accusation.
Ms Skinner also revealed to The Sun that her lawyer, Karl Turner, now a Labour MP in Hull, advised her to plead guilty in a bid to avoid jailtime.
She said: 'It was against everything I knew was true, but I followed the advice. That was a terrible mistake.'
She said: 'It was against everything I knew was true, but I followed the advice. That was a terrible mistake.'
Pressure has been mounting on the Post Office to face criminal action last night after secret recordings proved its bosses - including CEO Paula Vennells - covered up the Horizon IT scandal.
They revealed that the company and Fujitsu knew their faulty computer system could alter sub-postmasters' accounts more than ten years ago, despite denying this for years.
Post Office CEO Paula Vennels knew about the Horizon system faults while postmasters were being wrongly convicted
Ms Skinner celebrating outside the Royal Courts of Justice after having her appeal overturned in 2021
National outrage ensued after the scandal was depicted in the ITV drama Mr Bates Vs The Post Office, based on campaigner Alan Bates's bid for justice (pictured)
More than 900 sub-postmasters were convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting between 1999 and 2015 following faults in the Horizon system.
National outrage ensued after the scandal was depicted in the ITV drama Mr Bates Vs The Post Office, based on
