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Allan Leighton, a businessman, has held several senior roles at the Post Office. Seema Misra, the wrongly convicted subpostmistress who was sent to prison while pregnant has said "The apologies don't make any difference. I don't know if I'll ever accept their apologies."
Leighton, 71, was once the chair of Royal Mail Holdings, and he was also the chair and non-executive director of the Post Office. He is also the former non-executive director of the Royal Mail Group. Speaking to the BBC at the Post Office Inquiry today Misra said "I can't get the time back".
Leighton was affiliated to the Royal Mail between 2001 and 2009, and to the Post Office between 2002 and 2009, according to Companies House records. Misra was watching on as Jon Longman, the Post Office investigator whose report helped falsely convict her for theft and false accounting, was quizzed this morning at the Inquiry.
He was the Royal Mail’s chairman when some of the cases wrongly prosecuting sub-postmasters, because of incorrect information from the Horizon IT system, were brought to court. In the 1990s Leighton was Asda’s top boss. She said: "I want proper compensation for each and every victim and accountability".
When asked who she thought was to blame for the scandal she said she blamed the Labour government of 1999 for imposing the Horizon system on the Post Office.
She went on to say that each and every person who's responsible for the scandal - either in the authorities, the Post Office, Royal Mail and Fujitsu, needed to be put behind bars.
Misra explained how she didn't tell her parents, who were living in India, what she was going through, through fear she'd lose them if she admitted she'd been to prison.
"I lost both of them before my conviction was overturned."
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