00:00What he says in that article is true.
00:03Two weeks ago, we heard from Simon Edgecombe, who says he went to prison for almost a year
00:08after being wrongly prosecuted by the post office in the 1980s over money he says was payment for a van.
00:16Have you ever had money from the girl in the sub post office?
00:19To which my honest answer was yes, I have.
00:22It was an honest response and one Simon has carried with him as he tries to make sense of what
00:27happened more than 40 years ago
00:28with no one to help check his memories or back up what he believes to be true.
00:33That is, until Michael Baker came into the picture after reading the article on Kent Online
00:38looking for people who might know what happened.
00:41The more I read the article, the more my sort of chin sort of hit the floor.
00:46When I see the picture of the post office and it being in Reignan Road,
00:50I recall that I was a paper boy there during the time.
00:54His memory of the old post office is significant.
00:57He says he remembers money was taken from the till,
01:01something which supports Simon's version of events that he's been telling for years.
01:05Yeah, I mean, because it was my first ever job, I remember it really well
01:09because I tell my children now the story of how much I used to earn,
01:13which at the time was 50p around.
01:16And I had a savings book.
01:19It had a blue plastic cover.
01:21And so sometimes I was paid directly from the till.
01:25But also when I was saving on other occasions, I'd be paid from the post office till
01:29because I would recall that I'd get my money and then sometimes hand some of it back.
01:34I can recall being paid like that.
01:36So for me, it would be easy to see how there would have been a mix-up
01:40when they're between the two different tills.
01:43As the pair recounted their memories of standard procedures at the time,
01:47it came as a relief to Simon, as for the first time it felt like he had someone on his
01:52side.
01:53Previously, I've had no evidence to present to an appeal court about an appeal,
01:58apart from my recollection.
01:59And of course, appeal courts, they would like independent evidence.
02:05And I've had none.
02:07But this is not the end of the story.
02:09If somebody else can come forward within the next four or five weeks, perfect.
02:14If they had some association, if they received money from there,
02:18if they were a milkman, they worked with the milkman,
02:21they were a paper boy, paper girl, window cleaner,
02:24anything such as that that received money from the post office.
02:30As Simon continues to fight for justice, now with Michael by his side,
02:34the appeal goes on for anyone else who can help piece together what actually happened.
02:40Kristen Hawthorne for KMTV, Reynham.
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