Post Office scandal: how many subpostmasters have received compensation?
More than two decades ago, the Post Office’s Horizon IT scandal shattered the lives of hundreds of UK subpostmasters.
In one of the country’s biggest miscarriages of justice, more than 900 were wrongly accused of fraud, theft, and false accounting in the early 2000s. This was due to faulty technical systems in Post Office branches.
As the Post Office sought to reclaim discrepancies in its payments, subpostmasters were forced to pay thousands out
