Compensation scheme for Post Office Capture scandal victims announced

The authorities has announced a compensation strategy for postmasters who suffered fiscal shortfalls owed to a faulty Post Office IT strategy that preceded the Horizon scandal.

The Capture bundle was a faulty machine strategy utilized by postmasters successful much than 2,000 branches successful the 1990s.

It comes arsenic Sky News revealed that a damning study into the strategy has been unearthed aft astir 30 years and could assistance overturn transgression convictions.

In effect to the report, the seat of the concern and commercialized committee has written to the main enforcement of the Post Office to inquire for "full disclosure" of accusation it has connected Capture convictions and prosecutions.

Announcing its redress scheme, the authorities said it would "provide just compensation" for those who suffered fiscal shortfalls owed to the Capture bundle betwixt 1992 and 2000.

The strategy is expected to unfastened for applications successful Autumn 2025 and volition person an "initial phased rollout" for 150 claimants to guarantee the process is "fair, proportionate and accessible earlier wider implementation".

Post Office curate Gareth Thomas said: "We are committed to delivering just and swift redress for each postmasters affected by Post Office bundle failures.

"Today's announcement represents different important measurement successful righting the wrongs of the past and rebuilding spot successful the Post Office."

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The authorities said each eligible claims volition beryllium reviewed by an autarkic sheet of experts operating wholly separately from the government.

It said the sheet volition instrumentality a holistic presumption of each claim, avoiding drawn-out ineligible processes and providing just redress adjacent wherever grounds is low.

It volition besides usage a equilibrium of probabilities modular of proof, urge due outgo levels and supply claimants the close to entreaty successful definite circumstances.