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Former Walsall postmistress makes Britain's Got Talent final with scandal victims' choir

Former Walsall postmistress Jess Kaur who was a victim of the Post Office Horizon Scandal has made it to the final of Britain's Got Talent as part of a choir of former employees who were wrongly accused of offences.

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Jess Kaur ran the ran Lazy Hill Post Office in Lazy Hill Road in Aldridge where it was subsequently discovered that she had been using a faulty pin pad on the system which took money out of people's accounts twice. 

Hear Our Voice, made up of forty former postmasters who were affected by the Post Office Scandal. The choir is fronted by Will Rendle who wrote the song 'Falling Down', which the choir performed.
Hear Our Voice, made up of forty former postmasters who were affected by the Post Office Scandal. The choir is fronted by Will Rendle who wrote the song 'Falling Down', which the choir performed.

She is now a member of the 40-strong Hear Our Voice choir made up of some of the Horizon Scandal victims who were either wrongly convicted of accused of offences.

Mrs Kaur was accused of stealing £11,000 resulting in her being taken to court in 2009, but the charges were dropped.