Leaders ‘hopeful’ that subpostmaster exoneration law will be extended to NI

First Minister Michelle O’Neill and Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly speak to the media (PA)

Stormont’s leaders have expressed hope that Northern Ireland will be belatedly added to a Westminster law aimed at quashing the wrongful convictions of subpostmasters caught up in the Horizon IT scandal.

First Minister Michelle O’Neill and deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly were commenting after meeting with Post Office minister Kevin Hollinrake in London on Tuesday.