A NEW law to quash the convictions of those snared in the Post Office Horizon scandal will not be UK-wide in a move branded “extremely disappointing” by the Scottish government.

More than 700 subpostmasters across the UK were convicted between 1999 and 2015 after being wrongfully accused of embezzlement as a result of flaws in Fujitsu’s Horizon accounting programme adopted by the Post Office.

The scandal cost victims their careers, freedom and, in some cases, their lives.