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Under questioning on BBC Radio Four’s Today programme, the minister for the Post Office, Kevin Hollinrake, objected to what he called “trial by media” in the Horizon IT scandal. A few hours later, Rishi Sunak told MPs that the Government would introduce emergency legislation to overturn the wrongful convictions of hundreds of sub-postmasters and to speed up the compensation due to them.
The Justice Secretary will examine changing the rules around private prosecutions by companies in the wake of the Post Office scandal, a Cabinet minister has said.
A Black North Carolina man who spent 44 years in prison after he was wrongfully convicted of raping a prominent white woman has been awarded a historic $25 million settlement more than three years after he was exonerated.
Despite the well-known problems with the kits, they're used in half of the roughly 1.5 million drug arrests in this country every year.
PM Rishi Sunak pledges action over Post Office scandal impacting many British Indians | World News