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Cancer victim's husband hopes for justice as Post Office scandal appeal set

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The husband of a Post Office branch manager left with a criminal record has said it would "mean the world to" his late wife if her name is cleared after her tragic death.

More than 700 Post Office branch managers around the UK were prosecuted between 1999 and 2015 after the Post Officer's faulty Horizon accounting software made it look as though money was missing from their shops.Caren Lorimer worked in a branch in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, for 17 years before a 2008 audit of the Post Office's doomed Horizon computing system suggested there was a £38,000 shortfall.

She was left with a conviction for embezzlement after pleading guilty at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court in 2009 to one charge of embezzlement and was handed a community service order requiring 300 hours of unpaid work.

A compensation order for £15,000 was also made, but she was diagnosed with cancer in November 2021 and died four months later.

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