"For hundreds of subpostmasters, justice has come far too slowly. Many have waited years for the truth to be recognized and for the compensation they are owed. Yet today we find serious structural failings still blocking the road to justice."
"Thousands of victims are still waiting for fair redress, while the processes designed to help them are too often slow, bureaucratic and re-traumatizing. That is simply unacceptable after one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British history."
"The scandal traces back to the Horizon accounting system built by Fujitsu and rolled out across the Post Office. When the software started showing mysterious shortfalls in branch accounts, the losses were pinned on local operators, leading to hundreds of prosecutions, bankrupt businesses, and lives turned upside down."
Parliament's Business and Trade Committee reports that compensation schemes for Post Office Horizon scandal victims continue facing serious structural problems. Despite £1.4 billion in payouts, thousands of sub-postmasters wrongly accused due to Fujitsu's faulty accounting system remain trapped in slow claims processes and legal delays. The scandal originated when Horizon software showed unexplained account shortfalls, leading to hundreds of prosecutions and ruined lives before convictions were overturned. Government compensation schemes, expected to cost nearly £2 billion total, are criticized as bureaucratic and re-traumatizing. Committee chair Liam Byrne emphasizes that justice has been unacceptably delayed for victims of one of Britain's greatest miscarriages of justice.
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