Sep 18, 2023
Post Office: Horizon scandal victims offered £600,000 compensation
Post Office workers who have had wrongful convictions for theft and false accounting overturned are to be offered £600,000 each in compensation, the government has said. The Post Office minister said the sum was being offered "No ifs or buts". Postmasters who have already received initial compensation payments, or have reached a settlement with the Post Office of less than £600,000, will be paid the difference. Kevin Hollinrake, the Post Office Minister appointed last autumn, told the BBC: "If you've suffered a conviction, and you've had that conviction overturned, £600,000 is there waiting for you."We're doing this because people have suffered horrendous situations of course, financial loss as well as personal damage to reputation, and many other things have happened to people. The Post Office Horizon scandal has been described as "the most widespread miscarriage of justice in UK history".
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