Betty Brown and her husband had to use over £50,000 of their savings to replace money that appeared to be missing from their branch due to malfunctioning software.
Mrs. Brown, 91, told the BBC that she urgently needed justice. “Today would be good.”
The government will “find the money more quickly” for sub-postmasters who have not yet received compensation, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt told the BBC.
There would be “no waiting” for people such as Mrs. Brown, he continued.
During the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, Mr. Hunt addressed the BBC’s economics editor Faisal Islam, saying, “We, as a government, are very proud of the fact that we set up a public inquiry in 2020, something no previous government had done, and we are now going to make sure that compensation gets out as quickly as we can.”
Over a period of years, over 900 Post Office employees faced theft and false accounting charges thanks to evidence from flawed software known as Horizon.
The scandal has been dubbed the greatest injustice in British history.
Situated in a former mining village, Mrs. Brown’s Post Office in County Durham was considered one of the most prosperous branches in the area, competing with larger locations in Consett and Chester-le-Street.
But the retired branch manager claimed that the introduction of the Horizon IT system in 2000 was the turning point in her life.
