that was a point also brought up by tim brentnall saying he hadn't got all the documents from 15 yearsen told we have to go into this amount of detail because it is public money. "it feels like i'm picking crumbs from the table." later, we will hear from the current chief executive of the post office, nick read, and henry staunton, who was sacked as chair of the post office. this will be the first time he has spoken since claiming he was told to delay payments to sub—postmaters who were wrongly convicted. something the business secretary kemi badenoch told mps was completely false. if you have just joined if you havejustjoined us, the threes sub—postmasters have been giving evidence over the last half an hour or so. let's hearfrom alan bates talking about that compensation. everyone keeps referring to the scheme, understandably, as a compensation scheme, but it's not, its financial redress. this is money these people are actually owed and they have been owed it for years. compensation sounds like it's something at the benefit and whim of government and all the rest of it, but let's get

we can speak now to another former sub—postmaster, tim brentnall, who also gave evidence to the inquiry? not reassured, certainly. no more concerned than i was i no more concerned than i was previously. no more concerned than i was previously-— no more concerned than i was previously._ that i no more concerned than i was| previously._ that is no more concerned than i was i previously._ that is the previously. frustrated? that is the riaht previously. frustrated? that is the right word- — previously. frustrated? that is the right word- my _ previously. frustrated? that is the right word. my conviction - previously. frustrated? that is the right word. my conviction was i right word. my conviction was quashed in 2021 and i have had to build my claim with the legal team for the last three years because the post office insisted they evidenced every kind of loss we are claiming full. i was in my late 20s when i was prosecuted, i had perhaps 1t0 years of business ahead of me. £600,000 is an awful lot of money to anybody but when you have had your claim assessed by forensic accountants and they