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“However, knowing what I do now, it is evident that my email would have caused Seema Misra and her family substantial distress to read and I would like to apologise for that… Even if this had been a correct conviction, I would never think that it was ‘brilliant news’ for a pregnant woman to go to prison and I am hugely apologetic that my email can be read as such,” he said - Newsx
Seema Misra, whose conviction for theft was quashed in April 2021, said the apology should be to her youngest son, born while she was serving her jail term. | World News
Dorothy Bain has pledged justice to those wrongly convicted on evidence linked to faulty Post Office software but is resisting a mass pardon
The draft Government Bill initially excluded Northern Ireland and Scotland.
Hundreds of innocent sub-postmasters who were wrongly convicted during the Horizon IT scandal will have their convictions automatically quashed under a new law being introduced today.