Oldest Post Office scandal victim says new compensation offer ‘not good enough’
The oldest surviving victim of the Post Office Horizon scandal has had her offer of compensation increased but she said “it’s still not good enough”.
Betty Brown, 92, was originally offered less than a third of what she had claimed for, but she has now received a new offer of 60%.
However the former sub-postmistress told the BBC justice was still being denied.
Post Office minister Gareth Thomas, who had previously promised to look at her case, said it was always the government’s priority to pay as much redress as it could.
Betty said she was forced out of her branch in Country Durham in 2003 after she and her late husband spent more than £50,000 of their savings to cover shortfalls that did not exist.
Source: BBC