The redress schemes for victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal have “serious structural failings”, a parliamentary committee has found. Thousands of post office operators are still waiting for the compensation they are owed and face “unacceptable delays, inadequate offers, and administrative processes that ‘retraumatise’ those who have already been wronged”, a report by the business and trade committee said. The scandal, in which more than 1,000 people were wrongly legally pursued over discrepancies in their branch accounts linked to faulty software developed by Fujitsu, has been labelled the worst miscarriage of justice in UK history. There are three Horizon-related
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