British gov't promises relief to wrongly accused post office managers

LONDON, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- Hundreds of post office managers across Britain, wrongly accused of theft and fraud because of a computer hiccup, were thrown a lifeline by the government on Monday.

This incident, described as one of the most significant miscarriages of justice in British history, involved over 700 sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses who faced prosecution by the Post Office between 1999 and 2015. Many of them have spent years asserting their innocence, citing issues with a new accounting and stocktaking software program known as Horizon, developed by a Japanese company.