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Campaigner's plea to give cash to Post Office scandal victims

CAMPAIGNING sub-postmaster Alan Bates has slammed the Government for prioritising laws to overturn wrongful convictions over paying out compensation.

Hundreds of sub-postmasters were wrongly prosecuted because of glitches in the Horizon IT system, in the biggest miscarriage of justice in British history.

A new law aimed at quashing the wrongful convictions was introduced in Parliament yesterday.

But Alan, 69, says it is more important that victims who lost out financially get their money back.

Many victims were left penniless after using their life savings to plug gaps left in their accounts when the system made it look like money was missing from their Post Office branch.

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