Law to clear Post Office victims introduced

A new law will be introduced on Wednesday to clear the names of the hundreds of sub-postmasters wrongly convicted in the Post Office scandal. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said it is "An important step forward in finally clearing" hundreds of sub-postmasters. The proposed Post Office Offences Bill will help people whose lives had been "Callously torn apart", Mr Sunak said. Were prosecuted by the Post Office or Crown Prosecution Service; Were for offences carried out in connection with Post Office business between 1996 and 2018; Were for relevant offences such as theft, fraud and false accounting; Were against sub-postmasters, their employees, officers, family members or direct employees of the Post Office working in a Post Office that used the Horizon system software. There will also be "Enhanced" financial redress for sub-postmasters who, while not convicted or part of legal action against the Post Office, made good the apparent losses caused by the Horizon system from their own pockets.

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