{"id":29956,"date":"2025-11-05T06:43:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T11:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=29956"},"modified":"2025-11-05T06:43:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T11:43:24","slug":"alan-bates-gets-multi-million-pound-payout-and-oldest-victim-92-receives-final-payout-over-post-office-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2025\/11\/05\/alan-bates-gets-multi-million-pound-payout-and-oldest-victim-92-receives-final-payout-over-post-office-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Bates gets multi-million-pound payout and oldest victim, 92, receives final payout over Post Office scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The oldest surviving victim of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal has said she can now “look to the future” after receiving her long-awaited settlement from one of the government’s compensation schemes.<\/b><\/p>\n

“I can settle up my affairs. I can turn the heating up full blast, and that will be wonderful,” 92-year-old Betty Brown told the BBC.<\/p>\n

Mrs Brown was forced out of her Post Office in County Durham in 2003 after she and her late husband spent more than \u00a350,000 of their savings to cover shortfalls that did not exist.<\/p>\n

Her settlement comes after it was confirmed that campaigner Sir Alan Bates had agreed to\u00a0a multi-million-pound compensation figure from the Post Office<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“At last, after 26 years, they’ve recognised justice,” she said, adding: “pity they took so long.”<\/p>\n

Her Post Office had been one of the most successful in the region but eventually she had to sell it at a loss.<\/p>\n

Talking about what happened, she previously said it “absolutely destroyed my whole life”.<\/p>\n

The Horizon IT system was responsible for more than 900 sub-postmasters being wrongfully prosecuted because of it providing incorrect information. Thousands more, like Mrs Brown, were forced to make up for the alleged losses at their branches across the UK.<\/p>\n

The scandal has been described as one of the widest miscarriages of justice in the UK.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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