'Their convictions wiped clean from the slate,' minister promises
The mass exoneration of wrongfully convicted Post Office managers caught up in the Horizon IT scandal has come a step closer in the UK after MPs passed the third stage of a government bill.passed unopposed last night as part of the government's plans to quash convictions and pay compensation to those affected by the controversial computer system.
Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch told MPs:"For the postmasters wrongly accused of, convicted, and punished for crimes they never committed, this bill means hard-won exoneration with their convictions wiped clean from the slate. A wrong is finally being put right." Meanwhile, the public inquiry into the scandal, which Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said was one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British history, continues.
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