The Government could be forced to pay £46million to hundreds of victims of the Post Office scandal in an unprecedented legal fight.
Sub-postmasters were wrongly accused of stealing thousands because of a faulty IT system. Many were fired, made bankrupt or wrongly sent to prison.
One even committed suicide. For two decades, the Post Office furiously denied its system was at fault but it finally agreed to pay £57.8million compensation to 555 people in a landmark High Court case last December.
Yet after hefty legal fees, those affected will have to share just £11.5 million – barely scratching the surface of what they have lost.
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