Oldest surviving victim of the Post Office scandal savages Keir Starmer for 'continuing this little game' as she reveals she STILL hasn't been compensated

The oldest surviving unfortunate of the Post Office Horizon ungraded has deed retired astatine the Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer aft revealing she is inactive waiting for her afloat compensation. 

Betty Brown, 92, from Stanley, Durham, appeared connected ITV's Good Morning Britain connected Tuesday and revealed she is convinced she volition ne'er spot compensation successful her lifetime.

More than 900 sub-postmasters were prosecuted betwixt 1999 and 2015 aft faulty Horizon accounting bundle made it look arsenic though wealth was missing from their accounts.

Hundreds are inactive awaiting compensation contempt the erstwhile authorities announcing that those who person had convictions quashed are eligible for £600,000 payouts. The Post Office has paid retired astir £438 cardinal to 3,100 claimants.

But Mrs Brown says she is not 1 of those claimants. 

The Durham autochthonal ran her Post Office successful the tiny municipality of Stanley with her hubby Oswald for much than 70 years.

During her decades-long work to the community, the postmistress said her satellite was turned upside down with the instauration of the Horizon strategy which regularly reported that determination were shortfalls successful her till of up to £1,500 a day. 

Despite contacting the Post bureau helpline for support, Mrs Brown took the drastic measurement of utilizing her beingness savings, much than £100,000 to plug the gap.

Speaking connected the ITV meal show, the widow added that the accent of it led her hubby to an aboriginal grave.  

And she has present deed retired astatine the Prime Minister and accused him of playing games alternatively of supporting those who were wrongly accused of stealing. 

Mrs Brown told Richard Madeley and Susanna Reid that she feels she has been treated poorly but is determined not to springiness up and adjacent astatine 92 volition support warring for her wealth back. 

'The determination I person volition support maine going, and the choler adjacent aft 25 years, they stole my wealth aft serving them for 76 years serving, my hubby and I together.' 

Mrs Brown besides explained that and that she believes Sir Keir has been dragging his feet erstwhile it comes to ensuring victims are paid their afloat compensation.

'I can't recognize wherefore radical similar maine are inactive yet to get justness and that's what we want. It's absolutely disgusting the mode we've been treated. Diabolical.'

Mrs Brown added that she believes the Labour person has each the indispensable accusation to guarantee the process is concluded arsenic rapidly arsenic possible. 

'He wants to bash the deed, wherefore is helium carrying on, wherefore is helium continuing this small crippled helium has?' she said. 

'He has all the information, each the experts who person investigated. Everything is there; accountants, aesculapian professionals, each helium has to bash - it's each been analysed - helium conscionable has to enactment it unneurotic and get it finished.'

The widower called connected Sir Keir to honour the repayments, and told the ITV hosts: 'Whenever these experts determine connected a figure, 100 per cent indispensable beryllium paid and the PM indispensable recognise it indispensable each beryllium paid'. 

The Durham autochthonal went connected to explicate that she had been hopeless to beryllium her innocence and regularly called successful to the Post Office helpline to update them connected the reported shortfall but was told it was her fault.

She said: 'I had a lasting statement with my country manager. Every Thursday greeting I had to telephone the Post Office telephone line, I had to archer them the equilibrium from the nighttime before. 

'They knew but determination was nary enactment and I was told I was the lone 1 it was happening to.'

Mrs Brown besides revealed that the Post Office encouraged her to discontinue aboriginal due to the fact that of the issues astir her Horizon strategy and their determination crushed her hubby who was suffering from crab astatine the clip and became fixated connected the correspondence from the Post Office caput office. 

'Every clip you walked successful to the country helium was sitting connected the settee speechmaking this [letter] and I'd spell distant and erstwhile I'd spell successful he'd beryllium speechmaking again and I had to fell it to halt him speechmaking it. 

'The past words helium ever said erstwhile the took ill, helium had crab similar the king and helium had dealt with this for 15 years, the experts successful Newcastle that treated him couldn't judge it, they successfully treated him for 15 years but erstwhile [the letter] came helium went gradually downhill.

'I utilized to spell connected the autobus and he'd beryllium sitting up successful the furniture and the archetypal happening helium ever said was "any connection from the Post Office?" and the adjacent time "any connection signifier the Post Office?" and this went connected each the clip and 1 time I went successful and helium said "they don't intent to bash anything, however could they bash thing similar that to us?"'

'They were each his friends implicit the years and helium trusted them 200 per cent but however could they bash that to us?'.