Around 700 Post Office workers were wrongfully convicted, and some sent to prison, for theft and false accounting due to the faulty software, Horizon.
Mr Read was paid a total bonus of £455,000 last year.
Mr Read was paid a total bonus of £455,000 last year.
In May he agree to pay some of that back – £13,600. But he has now agreed to return the remaining £40,800.
The Post Office has not said whether other workers who received bonus payments linked to the inquiry will also return their bonus payments.
Mr Read received a bonus for the financial year 2021-2022 and part of that bonus was linked to his participation in the Horizon inquiry.
But the Post Office was rebuked by the chairman of the Horizon inquiry, Sir Wyn Williams, who questioned the awarding of the bonus before the inquiry had yet concluded.
Mr Read was paid a total bonus of £455,000 last year.
Around 700 Post Office workers were wrongfully convicted, and some sent to prison, for theft and false accounting due to the faulty software, Horizon.
In May he agree to pay some of that back – £13,600. But he has now agreed to return the remaining £40,800.
Mr Read was paid a total bonus of £455,000 last year.
Mr Read was paid a total bonus of £455,000 last year.
In May he agree to pay some of that back – £13,600. But he has now agreed to return the remaining £40,800.
The Post Office has not said whether other workers who received bonus payments linked to the inquiry will also return their bonus payments.
Mr Read received a bonus for the financial year 2021-2022 and part of that bonus was linked to his participation in the Horizon inquiry.
But the Post Office was rebuked by the chairman of the Horizon inquiry, Sir Wyn Williams, who questioned the awarding of the bonus before the inquiry had yet concluded.
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