Hundreds of sub-postmasters who exposed wrongdoing will now be able to recover their losses in full.
"I don't want fortunes. I want a home with a front door," says Sue Palmer.
"It's taken too long... it's a scandal that's needed righting for a long time," said Kevin Hollinrake, the Post Office Minister, who was appointed last autumn. And despite bringing the wrongdoings of the Post Office to light, they found themselves ineligible for the subsequent compensation scheme that followed.
"It just became worse and worse until the high court sheriffs came," she said. "And they put all our furniture in the front garden. The final humiliation. And that's when I had to go bankrupt." "All the other compensation schemes produced by the Post Office have been plagued by delay and unfairness... so there are deep worries," he said.One of them, Isabella Armstrong-Wall, died in December.
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