
3rd January 2024
Alan, who won a Daily Mirror Pride of Britain award last year for his campaign, accused the Post Office of "arrogance and ignorance" in refusing to believe subpostmasters.
Post Office workers wrongly accused in the IT scandal are still waiting for payouts, four years after winning their case.
Many fear they will die before getting the cash for having their lives devastated over two decades. One, Alan Bates, played by Toby Jones in a TV drama on the case, pleaded: "Get moving with it." Victims still waiting for payouts in the Post Office IT scandal fear they may never see the cash they deserve for having their lives ruined by false claims. And they accused the Government of dragging its heels over the compensation, 24 years after their wrongful convictions for stealing.
Read the full story in the Mirror
For the unassuming former sub-postmaster who was instrumental in exposing one of the biggest miscarriages of justice the UK has ever seen, seeing his life portrayed on the screen in a prime time national TV drama feels "a bit strange".
Alan Bates had no desire to find himself in the limelight when he began, then drove the campaign to expose the Post Office Horizon IT scandal.
Mr Bates vs The Post Office starts 1st January at 9pm on ITV1
Now all four episodes are available to watch HERE
In Scotland go to STV - https://player.stv.tv/episode/4jd2/bates-vs-post-office-real-story
But his remarkable tale is at the centre of Mr Bates vs the Post Office: The Real Story, a four-part mini-series which begins tonight on ITV.
It focuses on the epic legal battle he led and won, paving the way for dozens of convictions to be overturned.
"I didn't start all this with the aim of that... I was just one of many involved in this but I suppose they do need a central character," says Mr Bates.
Read the full story at BBC
If you still do not know much about this scandal more links
Data on Post Office compensation schemes is available at
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/post-office-horizon-compensation-data-for-2023
[url=https://www.youtube.com/@postofficehorizonitinquiry947]You can watch the unfolding Inquiry live on Youtube HERE[/url]
For a very good series on the subject in 14 minute episodes go HERE
It is live every day this week at 1:45pm
https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl7j
The earlier episodes can e found at https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m000jf7j
The Post Office Scandal Is Possibly The Largest Miscarriage Of Justice In UK History
Earlier
Read more details in the Private Eye report
Justice for Sub Postmasters Alliance
Horizon Explained at Wikipedia
You can Help By Donating To Crowd funding For Justice £98,000 is needed by 1 July 2020. Every donation will help.
Computer Weekly - 28 April 2020 - Met Police assessing evidence of potential perjury in Post Office IT trials - A very good timeline of the last few years in this article.
30 November 2023
Government Introduces New Post Office Compensation Bill For The Biggest Miscarriage Of Justice Ever In Uk
The Register 18 December 2019 - Post Office faces potential criminal probe over Fujitsu IT system's accounting failures
The sorry saga still on Youtube live
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=post+office+enquiry