Wrongly accused Post Office workers speak of their ordeals
A former sub-postmistress who was wrongly jailed in the Horizon post office scandal is still awaiting compensation, almost three years after her conviction was quashed.
Rubbina Shaheen. 58, was jailed for 12 months in 2010 after a computer glitch caused a £40,000 shortfall in accounts at Greenfields Post Office in Shrewsbury.
She is one of 93 former post office workers who have had their convictions quashed by the Court of Appeal after the Post Office's computer database, known as Horizon, was found to be faulty.
Tracy Felstead, from Telford, and Carl Page, who kept a post office in Rugeley, also had their convictions overturned. But more than 600 other post-office workers are still waiting to have their cases heard by the Court of Appeal.
Mrs Shaheen's husband, Mohamed, said his wife had been offered £600,000, but turned it down believing it was insufficient for what the couple had been through.
"What is this £600,000 going to buy us? We lost everything," he said. "We lost our home, our business, our reputations, and we lost our health."
Mr Shaheen said the couple had a four-bedroom house before the case, but ended up living in the back of a van and having to use the toilets at Tesco to wash in.
