04-07-2025
Post Office scandal: almost 350 victims died before getting payout
When the former sub-postmistress Gillian Blakey died last year, 'her only real regret was that she couldn't live … to see real justice done'.
The 81-year-old Horizon scandal victim was sacked from her Grimsby branch over a £65,000 shortfall in 2004, but she still had not received final compensation when she died in October.
Her husband David said she would have urged the Post Office and government to 'put an end to all this delay over compensating people properly' and 'to do the right thing before more people pass'.
The Times can now reveal she was one of 345 victims of the Horizon scandal who have died before receiving final compensation, according to data obtained by freedom of information requests.
