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More than 730 people were prosecuted by the Post Office between 2000 and 2014, and had their lives ripped apart as they served time in prison, declared bankruptcy and even lost their lives

Arbaz Hamza Hamid, 24, punched Stephen Stead so hard he was left with a bloody nose at his surgery and his glasses left an imprint on his skin, York Crown Court heard

Janine Powell was working at the branch in Tiverton in Devon when the Horizon system was brought in. She refused to plead guilty and spent five months behind bars

Robert Stewart beat teenage Zahid Mubarek to death as he slept - then daubed a swastika on the walls of their shared cell at Feltham Young Offenders Institute in west London

Michelle Atherton, 47, died in a crash in St Helens, Merseyside, with her boyfriend Kevin Marsh, 43, later convicted of causing death by dangerous driving and sentenced for 16 years

Gypsy Rose Blanchard, who was jailed for her part in killing her abusive mom, has admitted that she tried to murder her long before she met the man who would eventually end her life

Shania Begum, 25, worked as a prison officer at Category B HMP Birmingham where she had an "inappropriate relationship" with prisoner Joshua Mullings, and has been locked up for 16 months

In evidence to the Post Office Inquiry, Stephen Bradshaw was confronted with claims of bullying and forced to deny his team acted like 'Mafia gangsters' towards innocent postmasters

Two days after Georgia Harrison enters the villa near Cape Town in South Africa for Love Island All Stars, her jailed ex Stephen Bear will be released from prison

Los Choneros gang leader Adolfo Macías, alias Fito, was sprung from his cell on Sunday. Two days later, rival drug lord Fabricio Colón Pico, of the Los Lobos group, escaped from a different jail in Ecuador

Ivan Bonaparte, 33, carried out the horrific boiling oil attack in the hope of going to prison, after he faced eviction because he spent all his rent money on drugs

Amanda Knox was imprisoned after being found guilty for the murder of of British student Meredith Kercher in 2009, with a prison sentence of 26 years before it was later overturned

Katie Allan, 21, took her own life just three weeks before she was due to be released on tag from Polmont Young Offenders Institution with allegations she was being bullied by other inmates

Prison officer Megan Breen appeared at Cardiff Crown Court accused of carrying out the affair with an unnamed male inmate across two jails - HMP Usk and HMP Prescoed - in Gwent, South Wales

A woman got revenge on her husband after discovering he has an entire second family in another state - but he launched an attack right back at her

Rival drug lord Fabricio Colon Pico, alias The Savage, has now escaped prison in Ecuador following Fito with President Daniel Noboa saying there is a "terrorist threat" against the country which is in chaos

Since Los Choneros gang leader Adolfo Macías, alias Fito, was discovered missing from his cell in a low-security prison in Ecuador more attacks have burst out across the country

Student Katie Allan, 21, was found dead in her cell three weeks before she was due to be released on tag - with a fatal accident inquiry opening today in relation to her death

Linda Allan, the mother of 21-year-old Katie Allan, has said that her daughter was "exhausted" and scared of other prisoners. It comes as an inquiry is investigating after Ms Allan died by suicide while behind bars

Prince Andrew continues to reel from the recent release of court papers that named him 67 times as they revealed the names of people associated with rapist and trafficker Jeffrey Epstein

HMP Polmont Young Offenders Institution, where Katie Allan, 21, and William Lindsay, 16, were found dead in their cells just a few months apart, has been described as 'worse than adult prison'

Ecuador's most dangerous drug lord Jose Adolfo Macias Villamar, alias Fito, has escaped from the high security Guayaquil prison. He is head of Los Choneros linked to El Chapo's Sinaloa Cartel

Desiree Figueroa entered a guilty plea which stipulates she must testify against her mother Clarisa Figueroa, who is accused of strangling 19-year-old Marlen Ochoa-Lopez with a cable

Russian citizens tell of their harrowing journeys to flee the country to avoid being drafted to Putin’s sprawling army - as its war against Ukraine continues

Documents unsealed by a Manhattan judge have given a glimpse into the world of paedophile and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, including who he associated with - though the inclusion of names does not necessarily indicate any wrongdoing