Kate Middleton’s postmaster demands justice for colleagues

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Mr Shingadia, a grandfather, would serve sweets to the princess and her sister and got an invitation from Kate to her 2011 wedding to Prince ­William, who he also served during the early years of the royal romance, But just months later he was convicted of false accounting when the Horizon IT accounting system installed in his Post Office incorrectly showed £16,000 of discrepancies. Solicitor Neil Hudgell, of Hudgell Solicitors, who represented the 12 cleared on Monday as well as 33 former subpostmasters who have cleared their names so far, said: “Today is another step forward in terms of maintaining the momentum and ensuring we continue to contest every unsafe conviction as a result of the Post Office using its faulty Horizon computer system to pursue prosecutions against decent, honest, law-abiding people. At Prime Minister’s Questions later on Wednesday, Mr Sunak confirmed a new law would be introduced so people wrongly convicted in the Horizon scandal are “swiftly exonerated and compensated”. Speaking at PMQs today, Mr Sunak said the post office scandal is “one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in this nation’s history” at PMQs today.