Taunton sub-postmaster meets with Minister over £79,000 theft conviction

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Taunton sub-postmaster meets with Minister over £79,000 theft conviction

A FORMER Taunton sub-postmaster has met with the Post Office minister to review his conviction. Steve Marston believes he was wrongfully convicted of theft and false accounting errors caused by the Capture software. A predecessor to Horizon, Capture was developed by the Post Office before being rolled out in 1992. Shortfalls of £79,000 were found at his branch in 1998, he said, forcing him to plead guilty in a bid to avoid jail time. He made the…