Victims of the Horizon IT scandal could number "in the tens of thousands" if the families of affected sub-postmasters are taken into account, solicitor Neil Hudgell tells MPs on the Business and Trade select committee. Dr Hudgell says: "There's another class of people that cannot be compensated in a way. That's the spouses, the children, the parents”. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 There's another wider point that you raised that just occurred to me to mention is that
00:04 it's not just the postmasters here that suffered greatly. There's another class of people that
00:12 cannot be compensated in any way and that's the spouses, the children, the parents.
00:16 The spouses that have miscarried because of the stress of things.
00:21 The spouses that have committed suicide because of the stress of things.
00:24 The kids that have got behavioural disorders that ended up out of school early and whose adult life is now shattered because of that.
00:32 Parents that have died, estranged from family members, generations of sub-postmasters where
00:40 granddad has believed the post office over grandson and then has sadly died before that relationship can be repaired.
00:48 So there's a whole raft and category of people that are not compensatable and that's another strand of this scandal that needs to be looked at.
00:58 In the same way as people that were not sub-postmasters but suffered financial loss directly are not compensatable at the moment either.
01:07 So the scandal is in the thousands but it could be in the tens of thousands.