The Framlingham postmaster described how he was 'fortunate' to be unaffected by the Post Office IT scandal, despite having used the faulty Horizon software since it was introduced in 1999.

Roger Tripp spoke following a week in which the news has been dominated by the plight of more than 700 sub-postmasters wrongfully convicted of fraud, theft and false accounting due to bugs in the computer programme.

The Government has announced plans to introduce legislation to exonerate the Post Office staff after their situation was brought to the nation's attention by the ITV series Mr Bates vs The Post Office.

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But Mr Tripp, who has been a postmaster for 30 years, said: "I used exactly the same system, but fortunately I was not affected."

He said although Horizon was still in use, there was more support for staff now than there had been when the system first started if there was a discrepancy in the balance when totalling up at the end of the day.

He added in the 'old days' postmasters would have had to pay back any discrepancy in the balance.

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