Dec 21, 2023
Post Office victims compensation cut by half
The Post Office has cut the amount of compensation it expects to pay out to branch managers wrongly convicted of theft and false accounting by half. In its latest accounts, the Post Office said its much lower compensation figure was "Management's latest and best estimate" of the amount of future claims. Professor Chris Hodges, chair of Horizon Compensation Advisory Board, said in a letter to the government an unwillingness to appeal was due to a "Deep distrust of authority", evidence being lost or destroyed and issues with compensation if a Post Office manager is not granted a retrial. Nick Wallis, journalist and author of The Great Post Office Scandal, told the BBC's Today programme courts were "Working on the basis on Horizon being essential to a prosecution", and not seemingly taking account of the "Huge failures" of Post Office management and prosecutors. Nick Read, the Post Office's chief executive, said in its annual accounts that "Any suggestion that today's Post Office is deliberately placing obstacles in the way of that outcome is wholly misplaced".
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