A new law could be brought in to quash the convictions of Post Office branch managers caught up in the Horizon IT scandal under plans being considered by ministers. Lord Chancellor Alex Chalk has held crunch talks with senior judges about how
An MP who was one of the first politicians to raise the alarm about the Post Office scandal which saw hundreds of sub-postmasters wrong-convicted and imprisoned for fraud has alleged that the IT company involved deliberately targeted one of the victims. North
Sir Ed Davey should resign as the Lib Dem leader over the Post Office Horizon scandal, according to a poll of Express readers. The Liberal Democrat leader has been under mounting pressure over his previous role as postal affairs minister after an
More than 700 Post Office branch managers were given criminal convictions after faulty Fujitsu accounting software called Horizon made it appear as though money was missing from their shops. Here is a timeline of the key events of the scandal: ●1999 The
Sunak backs calls to strip ex-post office chief’s CBE over horizon scandal (Image: Getty) The Prime Minister backed the calls of more than one million people left outraged that the former executive holds an honour for services to the industry. More than
Paula Vennells will hand back her CBE “immediately” after the huge fallout over the Horizon IT scandal which led to hundreds of subpostmasters being wrongly prosecuted. The former chief executive, who ran the Post Office while it routinely denied there was a
Nigel Farage has turned up the heat on Sir Keir Starmer as public anger grows over the Horizon scandal, insisting the Labour leader did have the power to stop Post Office prosecutions in their tracks. Justice Secretary Alex Chalk is holding crunch
Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey has come under fire for his actions as postal affairs minister when issues surrounding the Horizon system first emerged. Sir Ed failed to investigate the details of the scandal during the Lib Dem coalition with the
He wants Scotland Yard – which launched Operation Olympus in late 2020 – to explain why detectives only last week began investigating claims that the Post Office defrauded innocent subpostmasters out of millions of pounds in money recovered, as well as sending
One example of CPS involvement, highlighted by Mr Myers, included the case of Seema Misra who was prosecuted on behalf of the Post Office by the CPS while Sir Keir was Director of Public Prosecutions. Reflecting on the moment she was sentenced