Post Office scandal victim dedicates OBE to 'sub-postmasters we have lost'

Betty Brown, the oldest surviving victim of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal, will receive an OBE at Windsor Castle today.

Brown was one of hundreds of sub-postmasters wrongly accused of stealing, and was forced out of her County Durham branch in 2003 - despite her and her late husband spending more than £50,000 of their savings to make good on losses which didn't exist.

The award "won't be a Betty Brown medal," the former sub-postmaster said, but will be for "all the sub postmasters that we have lost".

The Horizon IT system was responsible for more than 900 sub-postmasters being wrongfully prosecuted because of it providing incorrect information. Thousands were forced to make up for the alleged losses at their branches across the UK.

More than a billion pounds has been paid out in compensation to victims of the scandal, according to the government.