A FORMER sub-postmaster from South Warnborough says she feels "vindicated" by the findings of an independent report by forensic accountants that found the Post Office had failed to investigate the cause of large cash shortfalls before beginning court proceedings.

Jo Hamilton is among those who claim that a fault in the Horizon IT system, used at the time by the Post Office, caused her, and at least 150 other sub-postmasters, to be wrongly accused of false accounting and fraud.

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