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WITNESS: SEEMA MISRA
STATEMENT NO: WITNO065_01
EXHIBIT: WITNO065_01/3
EXHIBIT 3
The following documentation comprises the exhibit referenced as exhibit 3
in the witness statement of Mrs Seema Misra referenced WITNO065_01.
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theft and false accounting which saw
her jailed when she was pregnant
+ Seema Misra served four months of a 15-month sentence in 2011 while pregnant
+ She was suspended from her post office she ran in West Byfleet, Surrey in 2008
+ She was convicted of theft and false accounting which has finally been quashed
+ Ms Misra will speak to lawyers about filing a claim for malicious prosecution
By ANTONIA HOYLE FOR THE DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 00:25, 24 April 2021 I UPDATED: 01:52, 24 April 2021
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Sitting in the High Court as her name was read out yesterday, it took Seema Misra a
few moments to compute that her criminal conviction had finally been quashed.
Only after her eyes met with other sub-postmasters and her social media feed
revealed the news did she allow it to sink in. Then, tears fell.
‘It was very important that I came to court and heard it from the judges myself, after
waiting so long, but it didn't feel real at first. I wanted to double check,’ says Mrs
Misra, 45, who served four months of a 15-month sentence in 2011, while pregnant,
after being wrongly convicted of theft and false accounting.
‘I felt a mixture of emotions. Happy and grateful, but also angry and betrayed that
this happened and that it has taken so many years for my name to be cleared.’
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Sitting in the High Court as her name was read out yesterday, it took Seema Misra a few
moments to compute that her criminal conviction had finally been quashed
She feels vindicated not only by the verdict but the finding the Post Office withheld
information that would have given her and the 38 other sub-postmasters whose
convictions were quashed a fair trial.
‘They did this deliberately,’ says Mrs Misra, who ran a post office in West Byfleet,
Surrey.
‘They played with people's lives. Those at the Post Office who knew what was going
on should go to prison.’
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"Every half hour I'd have a nightmare that I didn't hear my alarm, or missed my train,’
she says. 'I knew we'd get justice. But it shouldn't have taken this long.’
Next week she will speak to lawyers about filing a claim for malicious prosecution.
Yet no compensation will make up for her family’s financial ruin, let alone the
emotional hell they endured.
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‘No amount of money can make up for the struggle I went through,’ says Mrs Misra,
who was suspended from her post office in 2008 after auditors found a £74,609
shortfall she couldn't explain.
Her conviction has cast a shadow over every aspect of her life since her week-long
trial at Guildford Crown Court in October 2010 saw her imprisoned while eight
weeks pregnant with
Arespectable woman so ashamed of her conviction she begged a prison officer to
hide her handcuffs with their coat as she was led away to jail, she would have
considered suicide, were it not for the new life growing inside her.
She gave birth two months after her release, on tag, after which the shame of her
conviction made life unbearable.
‘People stopped talking to us,’ she says, while Mr Misra adds: 'I was beaten up and
called a 'f***ing P*ki, coming to this country and stealing old people's money.’
They moved house but Mrs Misra, who developed depression, still felt unable to
show her face at the school gates. 'I assumed everyone knew, and they weren't
talking to me because I was a criminal.’
She feels vindicated not only by the verdict but the finding the Post Office withheld
information that would have given her and the 38 other sub-postmasters whose convictions
were quashed a fair trial
She didn't throw a birthday party for her youngest son for eight years. 'I didn't want
everyone to know that} GRO} mum was the one who went to prison,’ she explains.
Mrs Misra, who sold the post office for less than half the price she paid, started
helping her husband run his taxi firm. But while she was in prison, Mr Misra had to
single-parent and the business floundered. The couple's second property in London
had already been seized to pay off the missing money.
Even on her release, Mrs Misra was unable to get work because of her conviction.
Once a financial controller in the City, she says: 'I thought I'd be able to become an
Uber driver, but couldn't. When I applied for funds to do courses to re-enter the
financial industry I wasn't allowed.’
Even the most mundane activities caused pain. ‘Whenever I filled out a form for
something like car insurance I'd have to state my conviction. It brought the bad
memories back.’
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During her trial she refused to plead guilty. She assumed justice would prevail, but
thinks racism was partly to blame for her conviction at the hands of an all-white jury.
‘The court documents read 'The Queen vs Seema Misra.’ It played with people's
emotions. Why would people believe the Asian lady over the Queen?’ she says.
So contentious has the case been that Mrs Misra wants to thank her barrister, Paul
Marshall, 'who has found himself unjustifiably pursued by the Post Office for
releasing documents that they themselves made public in 2013’.
Last night, there was champagne. But Mrs Misra will cherish the everyday changes
most.
‘All those forms I had to fill in stating my conviction,’ she says quietly. 'I won't have to
do that any more.’
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