A second Post Office conviction linked to the faulty Capture system has been referred to the Court of Appeal in a landmark moment for campaigners, The i Paper can reveal.
Steve Marston, 70, was prosecuted for offences of theft and false accounting in 1998 over alleged shortfalls in his accounts.
He insists he never stole “a penny”, and the alleged missing money was a result of bugs in Capture, a primitive piece of accounting software rolled out to branches in the 1990s.
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The i Paper first revealed Marston’s story and details of a second IT scandal at the Post Office, which predated the notorious Horizon system, in January 2024.
