Wrongly jailed in UK while pregnant, Indian-origin woman rejects apology

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An Indian-origin former manager of a Post Office in the United Kingdom (UK), who was wrongly jailed while pregnant, has rejected the apology of an engineer whose evidence helped convict her...

Seema Misra, 47, told the BBC that a statement from former Fujitsu engineer Gareth Jenkins was "too little, too late."..

Accused of stealing 70,000 from her Post Office branch in West Byfleet, Surrey, Misras conviction was quashed in April 2021..

Her reaction followed a written witness statement submitted to the Post Office Inquiry by Jenkins, in which he said: I did not know that Mrs Misra was pregnant at the time of her conviction and only learned of this many years later..

This rejection follows a similar one from Misra directed at former Post Office Managing Director David Smith, who had congratulated staff on her conviction in a 2010 email..