Sunak promises new law to exonerate subpostmasters caught up in Horizon scandal
by David Hughes
Jan 10, 2024
3 minutes
A new law is to be introduced to exonerate hundreds of Post Office branch managers caught up in the Horizon IT scandal.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said they were victims of “one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in our nation’s history”.
Hundreds of subpostmasters were convicted of swindling money on the basis of evidence from a flawed IT system.
The Prime Minister told MPs: “We will introduce new primary legislation to ensure that those convicted
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