Dec 13, 2021
Post Office scandal: Government to foot bill for postmasters' compensation
The government has agreed to foot the bill for the compensation of former Post Office workers who were falsely convicted of theft in the long-running Horizon saga. As the Post Office's only shareholder, the government has now agreed to pay, as first reported by Sky News.Details are set to be announced in Parliament as early as Tuesday. After decades of overlooking reports of problems at the Post Office, the government is now having to use the deep-pockets of the taxpayer to make amends. The Post Office declined to comment when asked by BBC News.But in a speech in April, its chief executive Nick Read admitted that: "We have to accept that it is the Post Office that caused what for some has been very deep pain."Absent the possibility of turning the clock back, compensation appropriate to that pain must follow. A former Post Office worker who waited 15 years for justice celebrated having his conviction overturned in November with "a nice cup of tea".
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