Yesterday in Parliament, Tracy Felstead, one of the earliest and youngest victims of the Post Office Horizon Scandal met with the current Chief Executive Officer of the Post Office. Also in attendance were Lucy and Flora Page, an experienced legal advocate who has been representing wronged sub-Postmasters and Simon Recaldin, Director at the Post Office overseeing the response to the Horizon scandal.
Tracy, who was wrongly convicted and imprisoned during the Post Office Horizon Scandal, has fought for justice for many years.
Lucy has campaigned extensively on behalf of sub-Postmasters throughout her time in Parliament and has lobbied a succession of Ministers to put victims of the scandal first. You can read more about Tracy’s fight for justice here.
Lucy Allan MP said:
The meeting was intended for Tracy to receive an apology in person from the Chief Executive, Nick Read. Tracy used the meeting to set out the personal impact on victims and their families to great effect.
What was incredibly empowering was that she took the opportunity to tell the Post Office how to shape their future direction in their efforts to remedy the terrible suffering and injustice inflicted on so many decent honest people. Tracy invited the Post Office to ensure that their actions matched their words. She helped the Post Office to see and understand the issues they must address. She asked them to return in 6 months for a review of their progress on the issues she had raised.
Tracey showed professionalism, courage, and the ability to get her points across with confidence. Tracy was deeply impressive. She held the Chief Executive of the Post Office to account and told him how to improve the remediation process. The Post Office representatives appeared genuinely moved by her testimony, but they had not reckoned on Tracy’s extraordinary strength of will to see justice done, without further anguish being caused to postmasters.
It’s been a long path to justice and Tracy has been an inspiration.
Photo above: (L-R, Flora Page - Legal Advocate, Tracy Felstead & Lucy Allan MP)
