Justice Secretary Denies Playing Politics with Wrongful Convictions of Subpostmasters

The Justice Secretary has denied playing politics with the wrongful convictions of subpostmasters despite blaming Westminster for the absence of Scots ­legislation to quash convictions.

Constance said: “The root cause of all this is Horizon Post Office technology that has tainted criminal cases across the UK. A UK-wide solution would have been the quickest and most simple solution to pursue.” Top news stories today In Scotland about 100 people are thought to have been wrongfully convicted of false accounting or theft in the scandal. It has been described as one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in the country’s history.People were jailed and lost their businesses and homes to repay the money they were accused of stealing. Others took their own lives as a result of being falsely accused.

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