Joe Alwyn can finally breathe a sigh of relief. After spending the past year being terrorised by Swifties, the British actor – who dated Taylor Swift for six.
accounting fraud and it s ramped up in the past few weeks because of this documentary and now the focus is on overturning this and it s accepted that the vast majority are innocent and they ve been fighting for years to clear their name and rishi sunak was on the airwaves today and thejustice department is looking at ways that they can speed up the process and each and every one of those people has has to appeal directly to the post office and it handles the appeals and just 90 or so to date have been overturned and they ve been traumatised, terrorised for years and years and chased through the courts and there has been a body set up, a compensation committee to oversee the process and to make sure it works properly and i ve been talking to one of those members, lord james arbuthnot. he s been working with one of his constituents who were convicted in 2009 and he outlined part
of them has to appeal individually, and to the post office itself, to try and appeal it. after many of them say they were terrorised, traumatised, over many years by this whole saga, scandal, they are perhaps not confident to do that. it has become a big issue because of this itv drama, rishi sunak grilled on it today on the airwaves, and if the government looking at two things. firstly, how to speed up that process of overturning those convictions. perhaps removing the post office entirely from that process. may be passing it on to the crown prosecution service. and secondly how to administer compensation. a lot have got compensation already but the convictions have got to be overturned before compensation can be handed out. there is a public inquiry going on and they tell me there is mounting evidence that there is a case to have a mass exoneration, so the state to intervene and overturn all these cases as one. otherwise it could take years to resolve.
consequence 700 of them to date, they have been convicted of false accounting fraud and it s ramped up in the past few weeks because of the documentary and now the focus and it s accepted that the vast majority are innocent and they ve been fighting for years to clear their name and rishi sunak was on the airwaves today and the justice department is looking at ways that they can speed up the process and each and every one of those people has to appeal directly to the post office and it handles the appeals and just 90 or so have been overturned and they ve been traumatised, terrorised for years and years and chased through the courts and there has been a body set up, a compensation committee to oversee the process and to make sure it works properly and i ve been