‘Post Office gaslighted me and turned me into a basket case for years’, says former subpostmaster
Post office gaslighted me and turned me into a 'basket case', says former subpostmistress Reuters
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00:00 I wasn't tech savvy at all back 20 years ago and yeah they convinced me it was my fault
00:05 and that kind of, it was before the days of social media so you felt like you were, I
00:10 really was alone and I thought I must have pressed something and reversed something that
00:15 then doubled the next day and yeah I just thought I'd made a hash of it but when ultimately
00:22 I went to court and it made the national papers and people rang me up after seeing the piece
00:29 in the paper and I realised it wasn't me, it wasn't just me then it just makes you so
00:36 angry that you know they literally gas lit me for about three years that you know and
00:43 turned me, well not into a basket case but pretty much and then I just, that lit a fire
00:50 and yeah thank goodness we had the publicity because we joined up but you know that is
00:55 wrong but it's taken this long.