Post Office: Horizon scandal victims to receive £600,000 compensation each

Workers whose wrongful convictions for theft and false accounting have been overturned to receive payment from government

Every post office operator whose wrongful conviction over the Horizon IT scandal has been overturned will receive 600,000 in compensation from the government, ministers have announced.

The Horizon scandal, described as the most widespread miscarriage of justice in UK history", resulted in more than 700 post office operators being prosecuted between 1999 and 2015 for theft, fraud and false accounting because of faulty accounting software installed in the late 1990s.