HE CONFESSED TO SAVE HIS MUM Ravinder Naga cried when a court finally cleared his name. Only 14 years late, which the @PostOffice would call express delivery.. @STVNews and @BBCScotlandNews have told this story, and @greenocktele reported the court hearing. It starts in May 2009, when Post Office auditors said about £35K was missing at his mum's branch on Belville Street in Greenock. His dad had died in 1999 aged 46, and Ravinder Naga says that shop held many of his parents' last moments together. The Post Office, ever sensitive, sent auditors. He says his mum had been quietly covering small shortfalls herself until a £35K hole landed on her. He saw panic on a face that never panics, so he told her to say it was him, to buy time. A sensible explanation never turned up, and he pleaded guilty. In early 2010 at Greenock Sheriff Court, the charges against his mum were dropped after he gave police a voluntary interview. His solicitor Jim Friel told the court he had handed over a cheque for £35K, and he got 300 hours of community service. The sheriff said he had come close to a prison cell ... He says his health slid and finding work got hard. In 2022 he asked for a review. The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission found that Horizon, the Post Office accounting system, supplied evidence essential to proving the shortfall, and that his plea may have been entered in circumstances that clearly worked against him. It sent the case to the appeal court in October 2023, only 13 years after the cheque. In April 2024, Brian Gill KC, the advocate depute, told the Edinburgh appeal court that the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service @COPFS, Scotland's only prosecutor, was minded to oppose, and called it the most difficult Horizon appeal so far. Gerry Moynihan KC, for the Post Office, said the Post Office did not oppose. So the Post Office stayed out of the fight and the prosecutors volunteered to be difficult. On 22 August 2024 appeal judges quashed the conviction administratively. Brian Gill KC is now Solicitor General for Scotland. Congratulations on the promotion. In November 2024 Ravinder Naga told STV News he still carries the stigma. He says the Post Office ran a culture of fear, bullied his mum and everyone along the way, and now makes victims take the figure offered or beg. The Post Office is 100% state owned, so the apology and the bill leave the same pocket. It has said sorry unreservedly. His mum is tired, stressed and fully behind him. He says they took 15 years of her life, and nobody has found the counter that refunds them. Her good name stayed clean because her son gave up his.