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'I went nuts trying to find missing £1,000 in Post Office system - now I'll get my life back'

Source: PA Wire

A Post Office worker who was a victim of the flawed Horizon accounting system has spoken of the shame she has felt for years until she was finally cleared of fraud.

Jacqueline Falcon, 42, was a true pillar of her community in the village of Hadston, Northumberland, a former parish councillor and trusted Post Office clerk for 15 years.

But in 2015 she was arrested in front of her children, taken to a police station, swabbed, finger-printed and had her mugshot taken after she reversed transactions to cover up a missing £1,000 that she had

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