West Lothian Postmaster says £100K Horizon black hole ordeal was as stressful as cancer
dailyrecord.co.ukA young West Lothian postmaster who survived cancer has told how his ordeal over plugging a £100,000 Horizon black hole was as stressful as his fight with the deadly disease.
Salman Aslam said a relentless five-year battle with the Post Office over major discrepancies at his branch destroyed his life.
The 25-year-old finally walked away from the business he took over from his father last summer, having been blamed for another £80,000 shortfall he could not pay.
Salman, from Bathgate, spoke out after other Scots postmasters told our sister title the Daily Record that the Fujitsu IT system – which was previously blamed for the wrongful convictions of hundreds of postmasters and is at the centre of a national scandal – is still making lives a misery.
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