Post Office scandal: Govt commits to clear names of victims
Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride says the government has made it an “absolute priority” to clear the names of hundreds of post office operators who were wrongly convicted of theft and fraud in the Post Office scandal. Report by Ajagbef. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 So what we said yesterday in Parliament, Kevin Hollingrake the Post Office Minister,
00:05 is that Alex Chalk is having discussions now with senior people within the legal system, judges and others,
00:12 to look at how we can expedite these appeals more quickly.
00:16 This is a process that won't take very long, we will have further to say on this in the coming days,
00:21 but it is an absolute priority given what has happened to these people,
00:26 and this terrible scourge of justice, that we move on this as quickly as possible.