Criminal charges would go a lot further. It would go a long way to stop this sort of thing happening again. Knowing that criminal charges are never brought empowers this sort of behaviour.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Post Office workers who have had wrongful convictions for theft and false accounting overturned are to be offered £600,000 each in compensation, the government has said.
The compensation is for postmasters whose convictions relied on the now discredited Horizon IT system, in return for them settling their claims.
Postmasters who have already received initial compensation payments, or have reached a settlement with the Post Office of less than £600,000, will be paid the difference.
Noel Thomas, 76, from Anglesey was sent to prison for false accounting in 2006 but eventually had his conviction quashed.
Between 1999 and 2015, the Post Office prosecuted 700 sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses - an average of almost one a week - based on information from a recently installed computer system called Horizon.
Last month, Nick Read, the boss of the Post Office, agreed to return all of his bonus payment for his participation in the inquiry - a total amount of £54,400.
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