A dad who was wrongly forced to pay the Post Office £65,000 due to a computer glitch claims his life has been ruined. Pete Murray says he was almost left bankrupt after being told to pay the large sum of money to cover accounting discrepancies at his Post Office branch in Great Sutton, Cheshire between 2014 and 2019.
The 53-year-old paid £1,000 a month to the Post Office despite insisting he had done nothing wrong, reports the Liverpool Echo.
The dad-of-three claims he was left without pay while he was suspended for four months, all the while he was expected to keep up with the monthly repayments.
This forced him to take out £10,000 in bank loans and borrow money from friends to meet the repayments. Pete, from Wirral, Liverpool, said:
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