'We haven't had a single penny from the Post Office'

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Three years after winning in the High Court, hundreds of sub-postmasters are still waiting for compensation.

For 20 years Mr Sethi and his wife ran two post offices near Romford in Essex, investing in the businesses and working long hours.

The Post Office said if outstanding applications had not received an offer, it was "usually in light of a case-specific complexity".In 2019 the sub-postmasters' case in the High Court uncovered the scale of the miscarriage of justice Those 555 sub-postmasters did receive a share of the £57m original settlement, but that was mostly absorbed by legal fees and for legal reasons the GLO group are not eligible for either of the two Post Office-run compensation schemes.

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