The Telegraph covers Lost Chances
Bullying and eating disorders: how children got caught up in Post Office scandal.
Group seeks compensation for young relatives who faced the fallout of their families’ reputations left in tatters.
Children of sub-postmasters caught up in the Horizon IT scandal have said they suffered from bullying, developed eating disorders and had panic attacks as well as being shunned by their relatives.
Described as one of the worst miscarriages of justice in British history, some men and women whose parents were accused of stealing from their Post Office branches have disclosed the devastating impact it had on their lives.
It comes as a newly formed group, called Lost Chances for the Children of Sub-postmasters, seeks compensation for young relatives who faced the fallout of their families’ reputations left in tatters.
The campaign was set up by Katie Downey, whose father Tony said he was left suicidal after he was accused of stealing £35,000 from his Post Office branch in Cumbria, said she was 11 when she was “ripped away” from her childhood in the Lake District.
Read the Telegraph article here.