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Victims of scandal give evidence on second day of inquiry into human impact of Horizon IT system failings

…  Owen called for former Post Office management to face charges.

“I want there to be convictions, not only for the people who have perpetuated the whole conspiracy inside the Post Office, everyone from the top down who knew and was still pushing charges,” he said.

“I want charges against people not only in my court case who came to give evidence and lied under oath, I want each of them to receive a perjury charge.”

Lorraine Margery Williams, a former Post Office operator from Anglesey, also called for prosecutions of former Post Office managers.

“I want them to go to jail for what they have done. But that would be an easy life for them. They’d come out and still have their money,” she said.

“I want them to feel the way I felt and the way we suffered financially. I just want somebody to be accountable. It has gone on for so long and people are hiding. Somebody has got to be accountable for this.”

Williams, who received a suspended prison sentence in 2012 before her conviction was quashed in 2021, said she had struggled to find work after her conviction, which also caused her family’s mortgage repayments to quadruple.

Williams said the experience had profoundly affected her, her husband and her daughter.

“I was a recluse, I wouldn’t go out. I still don’t feel I am the same person. I get angry at times,” she said. “I don’t trust anybody any more and it’s difficult.”

The inquiry continues.