‘Post Office victims are still having to fight’ – Lee Castleton

He said moving forward had been very difficult. “My daughter particularly had terrible anxiety problems that led to an eating disorder.

“My wife had terrible anxiety that caused seizures and led to epilepsy.

“It’s affecting my son terribly in all kinds of different ways, so much so that he won’t even speak the words ‘Post Office’, even to this day.”

A public inquiry into the IT scandal has been running since 2022 and is trying to ascertain how the Horizon fault led to more than 900 sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses being either fired, made bankrupt or prosecuted by the Post Office between 2000 and 2014.

While Mr Castleton has received compensation, he is pursuing additional sums to fully cover his losses and said the inquiry was “kind of a little bit of a cathartic kickback”.

“Let’s hope that we get some justice,” he added. “There’s certainly enough information out there now to really get to the the crux of the matter and start, maybe, even prosecuting people.”