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Just one pound in five has been paid out in financial redress to postmasters wrongfully accused of theft and fraud is it time the post office is completely removed from delivering compensation . Disarray at the top of the post office in full view at a hearing in front of mps today. The main scandal remains the snails pace of redress for postmasters. Well talk live to this post Office Manager wrongfully accused of stealing £78,000 and jailed for six months, and this mp whos on the horizon compensation Advisory Board. Also tonight. Labour mp Margaret Hodge tells us shes written to the metropoli...

prosecutions into thousand 15. if we are to make sure that escande like this can never happen again, we need to look at the way in which private prosecutions like these have been undertaken. any company can bring private prosecutions in this way. this is not a special power of the post office, i know my right honourable friend the lord chancellor wants to give this issue proper and thoughtful consideration and i am sure he will report to the house about this issue in due course. getting justice for the victims of this candle and ensuring that such a tragedy can never happen again is ...

Course we want to ensure the process for agreeing compensation is fair, transparent and is open for independent assessment. that is one of the reasons why today, i am announcing retired high courtjudge sir gary higginbotham has agreed to chair an independent panel that will assess the losses of those postmasters with overturned convictions where disputes arise. this will bring oversight in a similar way to the oversight in a similar way to the oversight of the group mitigation order scheme and the independent panel in the horizon shortfall scheme. the original 555 courageous postmasters took t...