Between 2000 and 2014, the Post Office prosecuted 736 sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses - an average of one a week - based on information from a recently-installed computer system called Horizon.
They had already agreed to pay the costs of the scheme that refunds the money that branch managers put in to cover the holes that the IT was incorrectly showing. That bill will run into the millions and cash advances are now being paid to some of those people. 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.
"Absent the possibility of turning the clock back, compensation appropriate to that pain must follow."
Shouldn't it be the Royal Mail and not the taxpayer paying for this?
How will the Government compensate those who were sent to prison for an offence they didn't commit, this has been a complete farce by everyone involved in their prosecution.
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