The British Labor government continues to refuse justice for Horizon Post -Office scandal victim

“I think for the Post office scandal there is an immediate priority in lifting the convictions and receiving compensation for those who are entitled to it as soon as possible.” Sir Keir Starrer, January 2024

The Labor government was in power for 10 months and yet there are hundreds of outstanding compensation claims that were not paid to the victims of the Horizon Post office scandal.

Between 1999 and 2015, Post 736 Subpostmasters and subpost mistakes-an average per week for accounting errors, which were caused by a faulty IT system called Horizon, made available to the Fujitsu of the Post. This was despite subpost masters and loved ones who complained about mistakes in the horizont system after it was reported from many thousand pounds.

Hundreds became prison and many were financially ruined. At least 251 died before a complete billing has taken place.

After years of inactivity of the conservative government, not to compensate the victims of the scandal Mr. Bates against the post office. The answer rocked the conservative government, which was forced within a few weeks to say goodbye to laws that dismissed the illegal conviction of hundreds of innocent subpost masters, and to announce that compensation would be accelerated.

When Sunak was elected from office last July, many subpostmasters were still waiting for compensation and justice.

In the opposition, Sir Keir Starrer tried to make political capital out of the crisis out of the crisis, even though the Labor Party was involved in injustice.

In response to the ITV drama, Starrer said that the victims had suffered a “great injustice”, and “the immediate priority is to cancel the convictions, [and] Receive the compensation for those who are entitled to it as soon as possible. “

These words rings hollow to thousands of subpost masters who still expect compensation. Among these is Betty Brown, who is the oldest victim of the horizon scandal at 92. Betty rejected the youngest, slightly increased compensation offer and told the BBC that the offer is “still not good enough”. She had less than a third of what she originally claimed after a revised offer that had been increased from 29 percent to 60 percent.

Betty was forced from the post office in County Durham in County Durham in 2003. In the end, they had to sell the post office that was one of the most successful in the region. Betty said the BBC: “We are being abolished, the evidence is everything.”