Secret victims of Post Office

MP who spent years fighting for justice says shame made countless others hide

- SALLY HIND

There are "countless" secret victims of the Post Office's Horizon scandal in Scotland who "buried" their trauma, a campaigning Scots MP said yesterday.

Marion Fellows led the fight for hundreds of wrongly convicted sub-postmasters long before a TV drama sparked public outrage.

She said an untold number of Scots plugged the faulty IT system's shortfalls out of their own pockets in some cases concealing the truth from their own families.

The SNP politician wants these victims, who are only now revealing their stories, to be properly compensated for the hardship they suffered.

Fellows, who has chaired the all-party parliamentary group on Post Offices for more than three years, said: "I think there are far more people. So many people did not get prosecuted but they handed over money and didn't tell anyone because they've been so ashamed.