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Abstract
Objective: To explore the psychopathology of the victims of the UK Post Office scandal and the extent to which this can be adequately described by current classification of traumatic stress symptoms.
Design: Standard clinical interviews for the purposes of preparing medico-legal reports.
Setting: Face to face and virtual interviews.
Participants: Victims of the Post Office Scandal, postmaster's and postmistress's wrongly accused of theft.
Main outcome measures: ICD-10 diagnostic criteria.
Results: All the subjects had experienced life changing traumatic reactions which were inadequately captured by current diagnostic criteria.
Conclusions: The current taxonomy of trauma fails to capture the diversity of symptoms experienced by the postmasters and we argue that a formulation based approach should be employed, especially in the court room. There remains inadequate research exploring the impact of wrongful conviction on the mental state of victims.
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JRSM Open is a peer reviewed online-only journal that follows the open-access publishing model. It is a companion journal to the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. The journal publishes research papers, research letters, clinical and methodological reviews, and case reports. Our aim is to inform practice and policy making in clinical medicine. The journal has an international and multispecialty readership that includes primary care and public health professionals.
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