The Post Office has cut the size of the compensation pot it set aside to pay branch managers wrongly convicted of theft and false accounting by half.
Its annual accounts show it has now set aside £244m, down from £487m last year.
Between 1999 and 2015, more than 700 Post Office staff were convicted when faulty software made it look as though money was missing from their sites.
Between 1999 and 2015, more than 700 Post Office staff were convicted when faulty software made it look as though money was missing from their sites.
The Post Office Horizon scandal – named after the faulty accounting software – is one of Britain’s most widespread miscarriages of justice.
The convictions of hundreds of postmasters and postmistresses for false accounting and theft resulted in some people going to prison.
To date, 93 convictions have been overturned and, of those, only 27 people have agreed “full and final settlements”.
Meanwhile, 54 cases have resulted in either a conviction being upheld, people being refused permission to appeal or the person appealing has withdrawn from the process, according to the Post Office.
The independent Horizon Compensation Advisory Board has argued that the smaller number of convictions being overturned highlighted the “current approach is not working”.
The Post Office has cut the size of the compensation pot it set aside to pay branch managers wrongly convicted of theft and false accounting by half.
Between 1999 and 2015, more than 700 Post Office staff were convicted when faulty software made it look as though money was missing from their sites.
Its annual accounts show it has now set aside £244m, down from £487m last year.
The Post Office Horizon scandal – named after the faulty accounting software – is one of Britain’s most widespread miscarriages of justice.
Between 1999 and 2015, more than 700 Post Office staff were convicted when faulty software made it look as though money was missing from their sites.
Between 1999 and 2015, more than 700 Post Office staff were convicted when faulty software made it look as though money was missing from their sites.
The Post Office Horizon scandal – named after the faulty accounting software – is one of Britain’s most widespread miscarriages of justice.
The convictions of hundreds of postmasters and postmistresses for false accounting and theft resulted in some people going to prison.
To date, 93 convictions have been overturned and, of those, only 27 people have agreed “full and final settlements”.
Meanwhile, 54 cases have resulted in either a conviction being upheld, people being refused permission to appeal or the person appealing has withdrawn from the process, according to the Post Office.
The independent Horizon Compensation Advisory Board has argued that the smaller number of convictions being overturned highlighted the “current approach is not working”.
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