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New law to be introduced to exonerate wrongly convicted Post Office scandal victims

Sky News Wednesday, 10 January 2024
The prime minister has said a new law will be introduced so people wrongly convicted in the Horizon scandal are "swiftly exonerated and compensated".
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 Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced the introduction of a new law to exonerate wrongly convicted victims of the Post Office scandal. Mr Sunak said they would be “swiftly exonerated and compensated". Report by Ajagbef. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on...

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