The hero campaigner said he will look at new legal options next year over the delays in compensation to sub-postmasters
wrote twice to the Prime Minister in October over the time taken for victims of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal to receive financial redress.
But out of the four, only Mr Castleton and Ms Hamilton have so far received financial redress under the government’s Horizon compensation schemes, launched in March. Other victims who have already received compensation offers dispute the amount they have been told they can claim. “We are looking at something in the New Year, but we’ve got to get a bit further down the road than we are with matters,” Sir Alan said.
Sir Alan said: “There’s a pool of about 200 which are probably the more complex cases, some of which are being reviewed at the moment, and others which will have been submitted by this Christmas.“Because I think my claim went in October 22 or something like that. I think it’s been working its way through the system. If you’ve got another couple of hundred with similar problems to mine, this could be going on for years.
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