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
evening. i wonder if i can ask you first of all, how would you describe the length of time it has taken to get to this point? frankly terrible. we could have resolved this entire issue when ron warmington and iain henderson went in in the first place, if the post office had not tried to cover everything up and to protect the brand at the expense of the sub postmasters. ron warmington and ian henderson pulled up so it s terrible. d0 and ian henderson pulled up so it s terrible. , ., . and ian henderson pulled up so it s terrible. . . , terrible. do you have any reservations terrible. do you have any reservations about - terrible. do you have any reservations about mps l terrible. do you have any| reservations about mps of terrible. do you have any reservations about mps of returning convictions handed out by the courts? . convictions handed out by the courts? , ,., . convictions handed out by the courts? , ,., . , courts? it s something that is. it makes one cour
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