Former Subpostmaster who was made bankrupt reacts to Sunak’s new law

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Sky News published this video item, entitled “Former Subpostmaster who was made bankrupt reacts to Sunak’s new law” – below is their description.

Lee Castleton was one of the first subpostmasters to suffer at the hands of the Post Office, when the accounts at his branch in East Yorkshire showed a £25,000 shortfall.

The fiasco led to him being made bankrupt by the Post Office.

It comes after the Prime Minister said a new law will be introduced so people wrongly convicted in the Horizon scandal are “swiftly exonerated and compensated”.

Read more here:

https://news.sky.com/story/new-law-to-be-introduced-to-exonerate-wrongly-convicted-post-office-scandal-victims-13045242

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