it s a scandal which has been years in the making and which made criminals of hundreds of innocent men and women across the uk but now it seems the post office horizon software cases could finally be resolved. a faulty it systems are just a money was being stolen. despite the truth coming a faulty it systems are just a money was being stolen. despite the truth coming to a faulty it systems are just a money was being stolen. despite the truth coming to light a faulty it systems are just a money was being stolen. despite the truth coming to light several a faulty it systems are just a money was being stolen. despite the truth coming to light several years a faulty it systems are just a money was being stolen. despite the truth coming to light several years ago many have not yet been exonerated or had compensation paid. the issue came to the fore again in the last week after a story was dramatised on tv and today at prime minister s questions, rishi sunak, and as the governm
hello, i m balvinder gill. i was a sub postmaster until i was wrongly suspended by the post office and made bankrupt. what does the promise to clear and compensate victims of the post office scandal mean for me? balvinder gill is here along with four other subpostmasters. they ll give their reaction live tonight to today s news that they will finally be cleared but will everyone be helped? the minister responsible tells us the budget for compensation is £1 billion. is he sorry it s taken so long? it s terrible, i apologise to all those people, i think over 60 people, and this has been going on for over 20 years, probably 2a, 25 years now. who does he think should pay the bill taxpayers or fujitsu, who delivered the faulty horizon software? plus tonight, the man who was employed by the post office to investigate horizon software and who found it faulty as far back as 2013. good evening. it feels like theft but it was more like systematic abuse the words of this po
dominated the headlines for the past week. the prime minister has announced that new legislation will be brought in to make sure that those convicted in one of the biggest miscarriages ofjustice the uk has ever seen. who worked for the post office are swiftly exonerated and compensated. more than 700 sub postmasters received criminal convictions for fraud and false accounting, over a period of around 16 years, after it introduced a faulty it system. some went to prison and many were made bankrupt. we ll get reaction from one sub postmaster in a moment but first our political correspondent iain watson reports. the post office told us over and over, you re the only one. that was a lie, actually. itv made a drama out of a crisis, a scandal that started more than 20 years ago came to public and political prominence. fewer than 100 sub postmasters have had their wrongful convictions overturned and there s pressure to clear more names and pay out more compensation. the prime mini
development on a story which has dominated the headlines for the past week thanks to a tv drama. the prime minister has announced new legislation, to make sure that hundreds of post office branch managers convicted in one of the biggest miscarriages ofjustice the uk has ever seen are swiftly exonerated and compensated. more than 700 sub postmasters were given criminal convictions for fraud and false accounting over a period of around 16 years after it introduced a faulty it system. some went to prison. many were bankru pted. we ll get reaction from one sub postmaster in a moment but first our political correspondent iain watson reports. the post office told us over and over. you re the only one. that was a lie, actually, because. itv made a drama out of a crisis, a scandal that started more than 20 years ago came to public and political prominence. fewer than 100 sub postmasters have had their wrongful convictions overturned and there s pressure to clear more names and pa