Law to quash wrongful PO convictions

Published date13 March 2024
Publication titleHuddersfield Daily Examiner
The proposed Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill "marks an important step forward in finally clearing" the names of hundreds of wronged branch managers who have had their lives "callously torn apart", Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said

The legislation will exonerate those convicted in England and Wales on the basis of the faulty Horizon accounting software in what has been branded the biggest miscarriage of justice in British legal history. Downing Street said that under the law, convictions will be...

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