Badenoch and Strathspey MP calls for faster justice and compensation from Horizon Post Office scandal
Local MP Graham Leadbitter has called for faster action to deliver ‘justice and financial redress’ to local victims of the Horizon Post Office Scandal.
It comes after the release of a bombshell new report into the impact of the scandal on the postmasters affected, revealing 13 people are believed to have taken their own lives, with a further 59 having considered it.
Figures obtained by Mr Leadbitter’s office from the House of Commons Library show 10 subpostmasters in Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey have applied to the Horizon Shortfall Scheme - the redress scheme with the most claimants.
Overall, between 1999 and 2015, more than 900 subpostmasters across the UK were wrongfully convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting based on faulty Horizon data.
The Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP said: “The Horizon scandal was a horrific miscarriage of justice which led to immense suffering for those affected with lives ruined right across the UK including 10 subpostmasters right here in Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey.
“This government, much like the ones before it, has been too slow to deliver justice and financial redress, and must get a move on.
“It’s a scandal in and of itself that people who were found to have been innocent years ago are still waiting to be compensated.”
