Sky News Daily 'Why did we have to wait for a TV drama?': Post Office convictions quashed
Jan 10, 2024
22:36
Rishi Sunak's promised a new law to exonerate and compensate Post Office branch managers who were wrongly prosecuted in the Horizon IT scandal. But those seeking payouts will have to sign a statement of truth to say they didn't commit the crimes they were accused of.
Lee Castleton - who was played by Will Mellor in ITV's drama about their plight - is back on the Sky News Daily with his reaction as he talks to Niall Paterson about the government's response alongside Bryan Glick, editor of Computer Weekly, which first exposed the story in 2009.
Plus, Niall looks at what's happening in Ecuador after armed men stormed a TV station while it was on air. Joining him to talk about the drugs gangs that have declared war on the country's leaders is Dr Christopher Sabatini, a senior research fellow for Latin America at Chatham House and a senior professor of practice at the London School of Economics' School of Public Policy.
On the Horizon scandal, the Post Office said: "We're continuing to make interim payments in other cases. We fully share the aims of the current public inquiry, set up to establish what went wrong in the past, and the accountability for it."
Fujitsu said: “Fujitsu is fully committed to supporting the Inquiry in order to understand what happened and to learn from it. Out of respect for the Inquiry process, it would be inappropriate for Fujitsu to comment further at this time.”
Producer: Soila Apparicio
Interviews producer: Melissa Tutesigensi-Charles
Promotions producer: Jonathan Day
Senior producer: Annie Joyce
Editor: Paul Stanworth
Lee Castleton - who was played by Will Mellor in ITV's drama about their plight - is back on the Sky News Daily with his reaction as he talks to Niall Paterson about the government's response alongside Bryan Glick, editor of Computer Weekly, which first exposed the story in 2009.
Plus, Niall looks at what's happening in Ecuador after armed men stormed a TV station while it was on air. Joining him to talk about the drugs gangs that have declared war on the country's leaders is Dr Christopher Sabatini, a senior research fellow for Latin America at Chatham House and a senior professor of practice at the London School of Economics' School of Public Policy.
On the Horizon scandal, the Post Office said: "We're continuing to make interim payments in other cases. We fully share the aims of the current public inquiry, set up to establish what went wrong in the past, and the accountability for it."
Fujitsu said: “Fujitsu is fully committed to supporting the Inquiry in order to understand what happened and to learn from it. Out of respect for the Inquiry process, it would be inappropriate for Fujitsu to comment further at this time.”
Producer: Soila Apparicio
Interviews producer: Melissa Tutesigensi-Charles
Promotions producer: Jonathan Day
Senior producer: Annie Joyce
Editor: Paul Stanworth