New Laws Will Exonerate and Compensate Horizon Scandal Victims: Sunak

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced that the government will clear Post Office branch managers who were wrongly convicted of fraud and theft between 1999 and 2015. The convictions were part of the Horizon IT scandal, which saw around 700 postmasters and sub-postmasters wrongly accused owing to an error in accounting software made by the Japanese firm Fujitsu. They were accused of theft, false accounting, and fraud. Many were convicted and sent to prison. A public inquiry was set up in 2020, which was converted to a statutory inquiry in 2021, and is due to finish this year. Speaking in the House of Commons on Wednesday, Mr. Sunak said that the “new primary legislation” will mean those convicted “are swiftly exonerated and compensated.”...