Horizon Scandal: UK Post Office Offers Compensation to 777 of 2,500 Postmasters

Horizon Scandal: UK Post Office Offers Compensation to 777 of 2,500 Postmasters
A man posts a letter in a mailbox of a Post Office in London, England on Dec. 19, 2016. Carl Court/Getty Images
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The Post Office has offered compensation to 777 of the 2,500 postmasters who applied for compensation over a 20-year scandal that saw some of them serve prison sentences.

Its chief executive, Nick Read, told MPs on Tuesday that he hopes that lawyers and staff working on the case can make offers to the all but a handful of the claimants by the end of the year.