I cried and I cried... it's trauma on top of trauma

Post Office victim offered just 15% of claim

- BY JEREMY ARMSTRONG

CRUEL Horizon Post Office system made by tech company Fujitsu

A VICTIM of the Post Office scandal who was temporarily paralysed due to her ordeal has been offered just 15% of her compensation claim.

Janet Skinner, 53, was wrongly convicted of false accounting in 2007 and imprisoned due to failures of the Fujitsu Horizon computer system at her branch. Sentenced to nine months in prison after the faulty software said £59,000 had gone missing, she served two months but later suffered a breakdown which left her paralysed from the neck down. She had to learn to walk again, and made a claim against the Post Office for compensation and loss of earnings.

She cannot disclose the sum for legal reasons but has received an offer amounting to a fraction of her original claim.