Priti Patel told she has 'moral obligation' to compensate wrongly convicted miners

Money siphoned from pension scheme should be used to compensate miners, MSPs have said

SEVERAL SNP MSPs have challenged Priti Patel to financially compensate miners who were pardoned of unjust convictions during the 1984-85 Miners’ Strike.

In an open letter to the Home Secretary, the MSPs argue that the compensation should be drawn from the £4.4 billion which the Treasury has siphoned as a surplus from the Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme since the privatisation of British Coal in 1994 – equivalent to almost half a million pounds per day for 28 years.