Hundreds of Post Office victims to get access to new compensation scheme
by Jane Croft from World news | The Guardian on (#6PKEZ)
About 900 operators with overturned convictions offered fixed settlement of 600,000 or can proceed to full claim
Hundreds of wrongly convicted Post Office operators will be able to access a new compensation scheme, the UK government has announced.
About 900 individuals had their criminal convictions quashed earlier this year by legislation introduced in May to exonerate people who had been wrongly prosecuted for financial shortfalls using evidence from the Post Office's Horizon IT system.
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