STRESSED sub-postmasters say the hated Horizon system is still causing mystery shortfalls which are destroying Scots businesses.
Mum-of-two Marlene Wood is on the brink of losing her post office in Perthshire and becoming homeless after years of strain grappling with the IT system, which has led to hundreds of postmasters wrongly convicted.
And Selina Rashid, who helps operate a support group for hundreds of struggling sub-postmasters, says the flawed Fujitsu software caused a £10,000 black hole in her Lanarkshire branch's accounts over the last decade.
Both women say the glitches that sparked the UK's most widespread miscarriage of justice are still happening and running a successful post office is a losing battle for many.
Marlene, 53, has run Comrie's post office for more than four years. She paid a £400 Horizon shortfall just last month.
In despair, she said: "I'm going to lose my house, my marriage has gone, the bank will take the business back. I'll be sleeping on my mum's sofa and will have no credit rating.
"I've got £120 in my current account and I'm going to have to apply for Universal Credit" Breaking down, she added: "Whilst the Horizon shortfalls are a part of it, it's down to a toxic mix of trying to run a business which you feel set up to fail in.
"It's important that people know this is not historic these things are still going on - and the Post Office still treats us as if it's our fault.
"I will go under. I have put so much money into keeping this going but my days are numbered." More than 700 sub-postmaters were prosecuted across the UK, including up to 100 in Scotland, for theft and false accounting as a result of the flawed accounting system between 2000 and 2014.
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