Ministers are investigating ways to speed up the overturning of wrongful convictions of subpostmasters under the Horizon scandal.
Post Office minister Kevin Hollinrake told MPs he expected the Government to unveil a solution shortly, after holding talks with Justice Secretary Alex Chalk on Monday.Former Post Office boss Paula Vennells was coming under greater pressure over her CBE after Rishi Sunak signalled he would support a committee looking into the honour.
The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said he would “strongly support” the Honours Forfeiture Committee if it decided to look at stripping the gong.The Government was facing fresh calls to act after an ITV drama returned the huge miscarriage of justice relating to the Horizon IT system to the spotlight.
Mr Hollinrake told the Commons that he had a “very positive meeting” with Mr Chalk as they discussed how to help the convicted branch managers clear their names.With more than 700 subpostmasters having received criminal convictions for allegations such as theft and false accounting, Mr Hollinrake criticised the “slow pace” of them being overturned.The minister said: “We have devised some options for resolving the outstanding criminal convictions with much more pace.
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