Former subpostmistress wrongly jailed while pregnant recalls fainting at sentencing
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A former subpostmistress who was wrongly jailed while pregnant has recalled fainting as he sentence was handed down.

Seema Misra ran a submit workplace in West Byfleet, Surrey, however was suspended in 2008 after being accused of stealing £74,000.

She was handed a 15-month jail sentence on her son’s tenth birthday in November 2010 and was eight weeks pregnant when jailed.

Ms Misra’s conviction was quashed by the Court of Appeal in 2021.

“When the Judge said imprisonment, I lost it. When I opened my eyes, I was in the hospital because I fainted,” she instructed Good Morning Britain on Friday 12 April, recalling her ordeal.

Ms Misra added that the apology made by a former Post Office boss at the Horizon IT inquiry is “not good enough”.

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