£600k compensation to Post Office Horizon victims 'is an insult'

£600k compensation to Post Office Horizon victims 'is an insult'

Varchas Patel, 35, is the son of wrongfully convicted Horspath postmaster Vipinchandra.

Post Office Horizon scandal: £600k compensation 'an insult'

Janet Skinner, from Hull, was among 700 branch managers wrongly accused by the Post Office of theft.

What is the Post Office’s Horizon scandal?

The PA news agency looks at the decades-long scandal and what happens next.

'We lost everything': Horizon scandal victims react to Government plan to offer £600,000 in compensation

The Government announced on Monday that every postmaster who was wrongfully convicted because of faults with the Horizon computer system – and had their conviction overturned – will be offered £600,000 in compensation.

Post Office scandal: £600,000 compensation offer ‘gun to head’ for victims, MP claims

An MP has criticised the offer of £600,000 compensation for every Post Office worker who has had their wrongful Horizon conviction overturned, claiming it is “a gun to their head”. The government announced on Monday that every post office operator who was caught up in the Horizon IT scandal and wrongfully convicted will receive £600,000 in compensation. But Andy McDonald MP has urged the business and trade secretary Kemi Badenoch to make the pay…