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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Eleni Courea and Libby Brooks

Ministers to press ahead with legislation to exonerate Post Office Horizon victims

Kevin Hollinrake in the House of Commons
Kevin Hollinrake said ministers aimed to pass the bill as soon as possible to quash post office operators’ convictions. Photograph: Maria Unger/UK parliament/AFP/Getty Images

Ministers have vowed to press ahead with legislation to automatically overturn convictions related to the Post Office Horizon scandal by the end of July.

Kevin Hollinrake, the Post Office minister, said in a written ministerial statement on Thursday the legislation would immediately quash the convictions of hundreds of post office operators in England and Wales.

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