Overview

• Jo Hamilton, a victim of the Post Office Horizon scandal, used her appearance at the Brit Awards to call for faster compensation for those wrongfully prosecuted.
• Hamilton was wrongly accused of stealing £36,000 from the Post Office and was prosecuted in 2006. Her conviction was overturned in 2021.
• More than 900 post office operators were prosecuted due to incorrect accounting information from the Horizon IT system.
• Former Post Office chair Henry Staunton called for the compensation process to be removed from the company and for a hard deadline for victim compensation.
• The government has been accused of not owning up to their failings in the scandal and not adequately compensating the postmasters.