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Despite promises, payouts have still not all been given out.
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00:01Tributes have been paid to a former sub-postmaster who had died without receiving full compensation
00:06after he'd been wrongly convicted during the post office Horizon IT scandal.
00:11Pommard Kalia, aged 67, had run a branch in Orpington, south-east London, for 11 years
00:17before he had been accused of theft and had spent six months in prison.
00:21His conviction had later been overturned, but he had said that the ordeal had broken him.
00:26Between 1999 and 2015, more than 700 post office branch managers had been convicted of fraud
00:35and theft based on faulty software called Horizon.
00:38The post office scandal has been left unresolved for many people years on.

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