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The government is continuing to put Post Office victims through “hell” in their fight for redress, Sir Alan Bates has told Sky News.
More than 240 former sub-postmasters are still waiting for financial compensation years after they won their High Court battle.
Sir Alan’s comments come after another former sub-postmaster, Terry Walters from Wilmslow in Cheshire, died without receiving financial redress. He is survived by his wife Janet.
Hundreds were wrongly accused of stealing from their Post Office branches between 1999 and 2015 as a result of faulty Horizon computer software.
Post Office campaigner Sir Alan Bates has described government officials as living in “ivory towers totally removed from the hell the victims have gone through day after day, year after year”.
He told Sky News they “haven’t the slightest inkling of what hell they continue to put the victims (through)”.
“It’s all well and good meeting a few of them every now and then, patting them on the head and making noises about how hard they are working to sort everything out,” he added.
“When the figures alone prove how badly they are able to finalise cases – that is unless victims want to sell themselves short for a quick settlement.”
Sir Alan wrote to the Post Office minister in January putting forward a proposal to help speed along redress delivered to victims who are part of the Group Litigation Order (GLO) scheme.
On behalf of the JFSA (Justice for Sub-postmasters Alliance) he suggested a “compulsory mediation scheme” that could be inserted into the process to “create an opportunity for early resolution”.
In his…
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