Rishi Sunak announced a law to quash the convictions and speed up compensation to some 980 UK Post Office workers wrongfully convicted of theft and false accounting, as he seeks to draw a line under a long-running scandal that’s risen to the top of the political agenda in recent days.
The government will introduce primary legislation that would overturn the convictions of so-called sub-postmasters who were prosecuted between 1999 and 2015, Sunak said during Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday.
“This is one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in our nation’s history,” he said in the House of Commons. “We will make sure that the truth comes to light, we right the wrongs of the past, and the victims get the justice they deserve.”
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