Victims of the Post Office Capture scandal say they're being treated as second-class citizens - accusing the government of running a "two-tier" compensation system.

It comes as the Department for Business and Trade announced the launch of the first ever redress scheme for those wronged after faulty software created false accounting shortfalls in the 1990s.

Capture was used between 1992 and 1999 in up to 2,500 Post Office branches - with many sub postmasters making up cash losses themselves.

A government commissioned report last year found it was likely the software caused accounting errors.

The Capture Redress Scheme will provide payments of up to £300,000, and more in "exceptional" cases, to former postmasters who suffered financial losses.

Steve Marston, who was convicted in 1998 o

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