THE plight of a sub-postmistress is set to appear on an episode of Panorama after she asked for her case to be reviewed.

Jo Hamilton, who was a sub-postmistress in South Warnborough, has been fighting to clear her name after pleading guilty to 14 counts of false accounting after just over £36,500 disappeared from the Post Office.

She was forced to remortgage her house for £30,000 to pay back the money and given a community order after admitting the charges at Winchester Crown Court.

She is one of more than 100 sub-postmasters who claim to have been wrongly prosecuted for theft, fraud and false accounting due to problems with the Horizon computer software.

The Post Office commissioned a review by a forensic accountants, which stated that the Post Office should be “more alert” to problems with the system.

Mother-of-two Mrs Hamilton said the campaign is set to be put back in the spotlight once again with the BBC1 Panorama programme, due to be shown on either June 22 or 29, and said the matter was due to be discussed again in parliament.

She added: “I think they are going to call for another debate. It hasn’t gone away. The election got in the way of the momentum we had.”

Mrs Hamilton said she worries what will happen in two years when her mortgage term ends, adding: “My husband is 70 in two years and we don’t have any hope in hell of paying it off so we will have to go. I’m nursing my parents who both had strokes and it’s their home too. I can up sticks and move but it’s not fair on them.”

She has always maintained her innocence and has applied to the Criminal Cases Review Commission, but said she received a response to say there was a delay in obtaining some of the paperwork.

She added: “I got a letter saying it’s taking longer than they thought. They didn’t say the Post Office but they said it was taking a long time getting documents they asked for so I would think that’s the Post Office.”