00:00The first volume of the final report into the Post Office Horizon scandal is set to be published.
00:05Yes, more than 900 sub-postmasters were, of course, wrongly prosecuted by the Post Office
00:10between 1999 and 2015 in what's been labelled as the worst miscarriage of justice in British legal history.
00:17OK, we're joined by GB News reporter Adam Cherry. Adam, thank you. What do we know?
00:22So, this is the first volume, as you said, Sir Wynne Williams, who chaired this report,
00:28explaining that today is really about the human element.
00:31And the scale of this is really quite shocking.
00:33So, 13 postmasters, at minimum, we know now to have committed suicide.
00:3859 contemplated it or attempted it.
00:41And at least 3,000 claims still open.
00:44And really, the point of today is, part two will be more about who's responsible,
00:49pointing fingers and so on, you know, going into that aspect of the scandal.
00:53Today, the human element.
00:54And as I say, it's all about, you know, the time it's taken, even yet some are still unsatisfied,
01:03for claims to be repaid, even though billions have been pledged by the government.
01:07We've had a statement from the business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, in the last couple of hours.
01:12And he said today was an important milestone for sub-postmasters and their families.
01:17He said, I welcome the publication today and I'm committed to ensuring wrong sub-postmasters are given full, fair and prompt redress.
01:24And they will respond, the government will respond to those recommendations in full in Parliament.
01:31There are 19 recommendations in today's report, mainly focusing, again, on that compensation, speeding it up.
01:38And the government has to respond by October.
01:42Now, there's the whole question of what does that actually mean in terms of a full, fair redress for this?
01:49And also, you know, why did it take so long?
01:52Why are there still so many claims that are still open?
01:55Part of the problem is there are several claims bodies.
01:58It's all convoluted.
02:00It's very difficult for the sub-postmasters to make their claim in the first place to get heard.
02:05That's why it's taken so long.
02:06But interestingly, so when William says, you know what, even though these are unsatisfactory, that they haven't provided the results that the public would expect,
02:16he's not actually saying we should set up a new body and start again because that will take even longer.
02:20So that's a frustration for those affected by this hearing the report today or reading the report, rather.
02:27But nonetheless, it is an open question how this will be resolved when we can expect full justice.
02:32But certainly those sitting there in the audience today listening to Sir Wynne-Williams were at least satisfied that they're being taken seriously
02:40and that the government is promising, alongside the post office and Fujitsu, to respond to this fully in time.
02:48Thank you, Adam.
02:49Thank you very much indeed for that update.
02:51Pretty shocking what some of the inquiry says about people, you know, taking their own lives.
02:5613 people taking their own lives, further 59 contemplated suicide, 10 had attempted it.
03:01I mean, the trauma of this incident, really, being wrongly accused.
03:06Yeah.
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