Disabled Post Office Horizon victim offered 15% of compensation claim

The victim of the post office horizon, temporarily paralyzed after the stress of his ordeal, was offered 15% of his request for compensation.

In 2007, Janet Skinner was incorrectly convicted of incorrect accounting, and was sentenced to nine months in prison after saying that the incorrect software lost £ 59,000 from his branch account.

Now he’s got a complete financial correction offer – but some of what he claimed. “I cried and cried … Trauma on the trauma,” he said to the BBC.

The government said it has made all kinds of efforts to make full and fair offers to all plaintiffs.

However, according to Ms. Skinner’s lawyer, all high -valuable complex claims are “tooth and nails”.

Simon Goldberg from Simons Muirhead Burton said, “They followed a ruthless approach to Janet’s cause.”

His two mothers lost their home, living and sentenced to two months of imprisonment.

One year after his release, the post office returned to the dock, which was sentenced to another prison while following him because he did not pay “criminal revenues”.

Less than two weeks after the issue was solved, he suffered a neurological collapse, paralyzed his neck and used a wheelchair for a year.

“My immune system is broken, basically my body attacked himself, Mrs Mrs. Skinner said.

It took two years to find out how he was walking again, but he could not work due to ongoing problems with health and mobility problems.

“I always suffer. It has completely changed my life,” he said.

He said he missed to spray on deodorant or hair spray due to damage to their hands. His son helps to visit the bathroom and usually he needs to go down the stairs below.

His conviction was broken in 2021, but it took more than four and a half years to prepare his claim, including to be asked to present five medical reports.

Earlier this year, according to the legal team, the post office finally accepted these expert reports, which was triggered by excessive stress that his bad health suffered.

Although MS Skinner’s claim was very important, it did not emerge.

“It is almost every element of the claim of bonding points.” He said.

The biggest controversial issues includes loss of earnings and future maintenance costs.

The Ministry of Business and Trade recently assumed the responsibility of giving compensation for the sub-post-postmaster, including the courts, including Mrs. Skinner’s case.

A spokesman said that this did not comment on individual cases, but he made all kinds of efforts to make complete and fair offers. The authority said that an independent dispute resolution process exists for all applicants who are not satisfied with their offers.

More than 8,000 victims have already been paid more than 1 billion £ compensation.

Most of these payments have been in the form of constant payments of £ 75,000 or £ 600,000, depending on the seriousness of the case.

It proves that it is much more difficult to establish complex claims. Victims and law teams claim that the government and lawyers assigned to the post office are dragging something to minimize payments-something that the bakans constantly deny.

“The public wallet does not save a penny. In fact, it costs the public wallet in the medium term, Sk says Skinner’s lawyer, hundreds of millions of pounds, claims that the legal fees of the victims, as well as the legal fees of the victims.

Mr. Goldberg wrote to Darren Jones MP, whom he said was the champion of unfair sub -mail managers while in the opposition. Now effectively, the right hand of the prime minister.

“The only way to solve this is political pressure from the top.” He said.

Mrs. Skinner has already rejected her offer, and if necessary, she is ready to go to court if she does not receive enough compensation for everything she lives.