Lanarkshire MP calls for Post Office bonuses to be clawed back over Horizon IT scandal
dailyrecord.co.ukA parliamentary group chaired by a Lanarkshire MP is calling for £1.6million bonuses to be stripped from Post Office bosses in response to the Horizon scandal which resulted in the jailing of innocent postmasters.More than 700 members of staff were wrongly prosecuted for theft and false accounting between 2000 and 2014 after the company’s flawed Horizon computer system wrongly said there were shortfalls in takings.Many went to prison and are still waiting on final compensation from the Government.
Four suicides have also been linked to the scandal.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now. Get all the news from your area – as well as features, entertainment, sport and the latest on Lanarkshire’s recovery from the coronavirus pandemic – straight to your fingertips, 24/7.The free download features the latest breaking news and exclusive stories, and allows you to customise your page to the sections that matter most to you.Head to the App Store and never miss a beat in Lanarkshire - iOS - Android Marion Fellows MP for Motherwell and Wishaw, chair of the all-party parliamentary group on Post Offices, wants the Government to claw back bonuses paid to bosses.The SNP MP said: “Every penny must be paid back.
No one at the Post Office should be profiting from the Horizon scandal, which is the biggest miscarriage of justice in UK history.“It is grotesque that we find ourselves in a situation where bosses are getting bonuses and those who suffered from Horizon are waiting for compensation in many cases.”Post Office boss Nick Read will hand back £54,000 of his bonus but there is no pledge from the firm or its sole shareholder, the UK Government, that others must do the same.The government has promised to pay ex-Post
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