UK Post Office scandal: Wrongly convicted managers to have names cleared 

Hundreds of subpostmasters were convicted of swindling money on the basis of evidence from the flawed Horizon accounting system

The scale of the Post Office scanda in the UKl has prompted the British government to adopt the unconventional approach of new legislation. Picture: Yui Mok/PA

Hundreds of Post Office branch managers in the UK who were wrongly convicted in the Horizon IT scandal could have their names cleared by the end of the year.

Blanket legislation to exonerate subpostmasters convicted in England and Wales will be introduced within weeks.