Post Office victims set to be cleared under new law

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Hundreds of people wrongly convicted in the Post Office scandal are set to have their names cleared after plans for new laws were set out by the government.

The law is expected to come into effect by the end of July and will apply to convictions in England and Wales.

It will quash all convictions defined by a "clear and objective criteria".

Between 1999 and 2015, more than 900 sub-postmasters were wrongly prosecuted after faulty software made it look like money was missing from their branches.

The scandal has been called the biggest miscarriage of justice in British history.

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