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Post Office management should be ‘named and shamed’ in public inquiry says former postmaster

Post Office management who were involved in the wrongful conviction of more than 700 sub-postmaters should be named as a public inquiry gets underway, according to one of the victims of the scandal.

Tom Hedges, 68, worked as a postmaster in Skegness and was fired from his job as sub-postmaster of Hogthorpe Post Office in 2010 and was later convicted at Lincoln Crown Court.

He was given a seven-month suspended prison imprisonment ordered to do 120 hours community service and pay £1,000 in court costs.

It took 11 years for his conviction to be quashed and for him to be given £100,000 in compensation, which he said did not equate to the years of hurt and financial damage he suffered.

Former postmasters across the country are giving evidence in a public inquiry and Mr Hedges provided a written statement and is very clear on what he wants to come out of the inquiry.

“I am very much hoping they get to the bottom [of it] and name names,” he told Lincolnshire Live. “I’ve now won two court cases and I’ve also had my conviction quashed.

“In all of my three cases, I was fighting an entity called the Post Office, but we all know companies are ran by people.

“They made some appalling decisions. I want the inquiry to name these people.

“I think they will be quaking in their boots as much I was when I was taken to court.”

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