Four sub-postmasters who campaigned for justice for victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal have been awarded OBEs in the New Years Honours.

Seema Misra, Lee Castleton, Chris head and Jo Hamilton were given the honours after fellow campaigner Sir Alan Bates was knighted earlier this year.

Mrs Misra was pregnant with her second child when she was convicted of theft and sent to jail in 2010 and had her baby while serving in prison sentence. Misra who ran a Post Office in West Byfleet, suspended in 2008, wrongly accused of sealing £74000, was one of the hundreds of sub-postmasters who were accused of theft after fault in the Post office’s Horizon IT system made it appear that money was missing from their branch accounts.