The government has agreed that the taxpayer will foot the substantial compensation bill for former Post Office workers who were wrongly convicted of theft due to the defective Horizon IT system.
The Post Office has said it cannot afford the multimillion-pound clean-up bill for the scandal and on Tuesday the government, which is the service’s only shareholder, confirmed its intention to step in.
So far, 72 postmasters’ convictions have been quashed. Several other cases are in train, and there are potentially hundreds more postmasters whose convictions relied on Horizon evidence, who may seek to clear their names.
In a written ministerial statement, the postal affairs minister, Paul Scully, said he wanted postmasters with quashed convictions to
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