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00:00 We're just normal people, run-of-the-mill people.
00:02 We have legal people with us, but it's so difficult.
00:07 It's like a war.
00:08 It is an appalling miscarriage of justice.
00:10 Obviously, it's something that happened a very long time ago in the '90s,
00:13 but actually seeing it and hearing about it again,
00:15 it just shows what an appalling miscarriage of justice it is
00:18 for everyone affected.
00:20 And it's important that those people now get the justice that they deserve.
00:23 - They all be exonerated. - And that's what the compensation schemes are about.
00:27 It's such a complicated thing and so combative.
00:31 DBT and Post Office themselves are actually administering
00:35 the compensation schemes, of which there are three.
00:39 Obviously, I'm involved in one of those compensation schemes.
00:43 The victims are traumatised.
00:45 It's been a long time, over 25 years,
00:49 and £135 million has been paid to some of the victims.
00:54 But we've had £150 million plus paid to lawyers.