A West Midlands woman is returning to running her family post office after the Horizon scandal after a decade - for her dad

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A West Midlands woman will be one of the first to return to her family Post Office after being wrongly accused of theft in the Horizon scandal.

Rooprit Gill ran the Wattville Road Post Office in Handsworth, Birmingham, which was started by her father.

But she was falsely said to have stolen money due to a faulty Post Office computer system.

More than a decade later she is about to work there again and says her dad, who didn't live to see her exonerated and the scale of the scandal will be in her heart.

While banished from the branch, taken over by a third party, she was able to continue working at the shop, which meant she still saw her old customers.

Ms Gill is due to get back the keys to the branch next week. She said she had been determined to take the helm once more.

"I think it's going to be amazing," she said. "It's going to be emotional, but it's going to be exciting."

The first report into the scandal, published last month said the events had a 'disastrous impact' on those accused.