article_snippet.sent: Subpostmaster Michael Rudkin, 57 .
article_snippet.sent: A subpostmaster was pursued to the brink of ruin and A subpostmaster wife left contemplating suicide after being prosecuted by the Post Office.
article_snippet.sent: Michael Rudkin, 57, believes action was taken against A subpostmaster after A subpostmaster allegedly discovered that data in branches could be altered remotely – potentially explaining mystery cash shortfalls.
article_snippet.sent: The day after Michael Rudkin expressed concern at the revelation, a Post Office auditor turned up at a Post Office auditor shop in Ibstock, Leicestershire, to tell a Post Office auditor £44,000 was unaccounted for.
article_snippet.sent: My world was turned upside down,’ a Post Office auditor said, adding: ‘I became like a drowning man with no life raft.’
article_snippet.sent: Despite insisting a Post Office auditor never saw a penny of the ‘missing’ funds, Michael Rudkin was forced to repay the money and Michael Rudkin wife Susan, 60, who did most of the day-to-day running of the branch, was prosecuted and given a suspended prison sentence.
article_snippet.sent: Michael Rudkin had Michael Rudkin contract terminated while Michael Rudkin wife was left ‘contemplating suicide’ after his wife conviction.
highlights_snippet.sent: Many subpostmasters were sacked, stripped of savings and even jailed .
  