'Stop messing around and compensate people!' - Your Letters: January 24

The group fighting the Post Office won a High Court case and were awarded £57.75 million. Of this about 80 per cent went to solicitors working on the case (about £46 million! The claimants would get about £20,000 each).

Since January last year a further 3,800 have been awarded £594 million. About £150,000 each.

Here is the point of those statistics I produced above:

Message for the attention of Gareth Thomas MP, Post Office Minister:

Stop messing around and compensate those people properly and quickly not the derisory low amounts offered by civil servants but decent amounts – call any award punitive damages (extras) to sort out this disgraceful situation compounded by the actions of the Horizon manufacturer and the Post Office. A year ago the then Government promised to deal with the situation quickly. Taking over a year is not quickly, especially as for half that time your political party have been in power! You are just as responsible for the inactivity of the Civil Service. Remember, the Post Office not only took people's livelihoods from them, they also took their good names, and often their homes, friends and family.

Michael Gough, West Midlands

WE MUST ACT TO PROTECT VICTIMS

We are all aware of the grooming of young girls in the country.

Now everyone is calling for a national inquiry, which should have been done and acted on ages ago.

But as usual those who are responsible for these things dragged their feet and the outcome was not very good.

My concern is for these youngsters that this happened to. 

They came forward to help stop it happening to others. 

Some of the abusers were caught and sent to jail, but eventually they will be released back into the community, and these victims will more than likely meet them in the streets. 

This is not fair. Any abuser that is found guilty should be removed from the country, we were good enough to let them into our country and if they can't abide by the rules then out they go. 

If they were born here they should be tagged so the police and local authorities know where they are. Because when they get out they won't be very happy, so we need to protect these young girls.

It is better to put a plan in place before anything happens, not leave it to happen and try and solve it then. It does make sense.

Brian Palin, St George's

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