Good on her as i presume they are just trying to palm her off on the basis , she’ll die soon.
The oldest surviving victim of the Post Office Horizon scandal has rejected an increased offer of compensation, saying it is “still not good enough”.
Betty Brown, 92, was originally offered less than a third of what she had claimed for, but she has now received a new offer of 60%.
However the former sub-postmistress told the BBC justice was still being denied.
Post Office minister Gareth Thomas, who had previously promised to look at her case, said it was always the government’s priority to pay as much redress as it could.
Betty said she was forced out of her branch in Country Durham in 2003 after she and her late husband spent more than £50,000 of their savings to cover shortfalls that did not exist.
It was the faulty software that made it look like money was missing from their branch.
Her post office had been one of the most successful in the region but she was later forced to sell it at a loss.
The Horizon IT system was responsible for more than 900 sub-postmasters being wrongfully accused of theft, with many being prosecuted and some even being sent to jail. The scandal has been described as one of the widest miscarriages of justice in the UK, and was the subject of ITV drama “Mr Bates vs The Post Office”.
“It absolutely destroyed my whole life,” she told the BBC.
She thanked Mr Thomas for helping her but said there was “still a long way to go to get the justice that we were promised”.
Betty has been waiting 26 years for things to be put right.
“We’re just getting fobbed off. The evidence is all there,” she said.
