Sir Alan Bates has blamed government 'flimflam artists' for dragging out the compensation process for victims of the Post Office scandal.
Sir Alan Bates has blamed government "flimflam artists" for dragging out the compensation process for victims of the Post Office scandal. The former subpostmaster and campaigner has criticised the GLO scheme for being a "gravy train" for government lawyers, in a recent newsletter.More than 900 subpostmasters were wrongly accused of stealing from their branches due to the faulty Horizon accounting system between 1999 and 2015.
Writing in the newsletter, Sir Alan said the £75,000 offer had worked for those with smaller claims but "the bulk" were for more than that.He said: "I have been concerned to hear that a small number of people who are getting on in years have settled for far less than their claim's value, just to get it all over with, and that is wrong.
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