Post Office appeals to be fast-tracked as ministers find ‘solution’
Ministers have drawn up plans to fast-track the appeals of 750 postmasters wrongfully convicted in the Horizon accounting scandal.
Kevin Hollinrake, the postal affairs minister, told the House of Commons that the government had devised “options” for resolving outstanding criminal convictions “much more quickly”.
He told MPs: “We believe we have a solution” and said to expect an update this week.
Just 93 of 900 wrongful convictions have been overturned after the owner-managers of individual post office branches were prosecuted based on a faulty IT system, which was finally exposed in the High Court.
Two former justice secretaries said new legislation to quash the remaining Post Office convictions “could be done tomorrow”, as they urged the prime minister to act.
As MPs returned to parliament
