toastmistress

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The Post Office minister has admitted sub-postmasters and postmistresses wrongly prosecuted for theft and false accounting are not being compensated quickly enough.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2024

More than 900 sub-postmasters and postmistresses were wrongly prosecuted for stealing money after faulty computer software - called Horizon - said money was missing from post office branch accounts.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2024

Her conviction was overturned in 2021 when it was discovered more than 700 sub-postmasters and postmistresses were prosecuted because of a faulty accounting system.

From BBC • Mar. 3, 2024

Between 1999 and 2015, hundreds of sub-postmasters and postmistresses were wrongly prosecuted after a faulty computer system called Horizon made it look like money was missing from their branches.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2024

"I tell you that it is a well-known habit among postmasters and postmistresses in this country," and he went away a little displeased, as I thought.

From Penelope Brandling A Tale of the Welsh coast in the Eighteenth Century by Lee, Vernon