PM Rishi Sunak has promised that Post Office convictions would be quashed by Parliament within weeks, and said the government aims to complete compensation payments by the summer. Until this week, hundreds of sub-postmasters had been left in limbo even after a court ruling in 2019 blew open the scandal and ordered the Post Office to pay compensation. They became inadvertently the victims of a flawed software, a 1990s state contract worth an initial £1 billion to modernize the Post Office's accounting system.