New Laws Will Exonerate and Compensate Horizon Scandal Victims: Sunak

More than 700 Post Office workers were wrongly accused in the Horizon IT scandal, that saw some wrongfully convicted and sent to prison.

Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak hosts a press conference inside the Downing Street Briefing Room after Britain and Rwanda sign a new treaty to transfer illegal immigrants to the African country, in central London, on Dec. 7, 2023. James Manning/POOL/AFP via Getty Images

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced that the government will clear Post Office branch managers who were wrongly convicted of fraud and theft between 1999 and 2015.

The convictions were part of the Horizon IT scandal, which saw around 700 postmasters and sub-postmasters wrongly accused owing to an error in accounting software made by the Japanese firm Fujitsu.