It’s understood victims of the Horizon scandal will wait until the end of the year for compensation scheme improvements, before moving the issue “back to courts”.

Hundreds of subpostmasters were wrongly accused of stealing from branches because of the faulty IT software.

Seema Misra from West Byfleet was sent to jail in 2010 when she was 8 weeks pregnant and gave birth while on a tag.

A newsletter by Sir Alan Bates, the leading man behind the campaign, states that “if nothing has greatly improved” then a “specialist law firm” will be called in.