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Victims of Post Office IT scandal in last-ditch £46million legal fight with Government

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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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