One of the former postmasters driven out of business by the Post Office Horizon scandal said he doesn’t think the compensation package announced today will 'even cover the reputational damage’ caused by the scandal.
Speaking to GB News Chris Head, said:
“I think today we've made progress on those convictions of all 500 people and it's going to clear them and unlock the door to compensation.
“But in terms of the £75000 [compensation offer] it seems to be it's a little bit of a grey area because Rishi Sunak said it was an upfront payment, whereas Kevin Hollinrake, the Post Office minister, has said it’s a ‘Take it or leave it ‘offer for the people in the 555 group.
“It's not going to even come as a fraction towards what our people have lost. People have lost their homes, they’ve lost their businesses, they've had loss of earnings.
“It doesn't even cover the reputational damage, the distress, anything like that, so it's not even close and we do need to nail that down and find out what's what but the truth is behind it.
“By the time it happened to me, in 2014, there was maybe one other, or a couple of other cases, but because the Post Office portrayed you as the only one, you believed that maybe there was something wrong in that particular office.
“I started working at the branch when I was 12 years old delivering newspapers and worked all the way up until I bought it when I was 18. I sold the business for a loss after being terminated in 2015, and it's been a battle ever since. Here we are in 2024 and I still haven't been compensated for it.”
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