Former postmaster and Founder of the Justice Alliance for Subpostmasters Alan Bates may preside over Richard Branson’s Necker Island If there’s one person who deserves a break, it’s Alan Bates. The former deputy postmaster, who has spent the last two holiday-free decades fighting the biggest miscarriage of justice in British history Mr Bates vs. Post… Read More »
More than 700 Post Office branch managers received criminal convictions between 1999 and 2015, and some were sent to prison after a faulty computer system called Horizon showed money missing from their sites. (Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) A former Post Office owner said he had to empty his own savings account to cover shortfalls caused… Read More »
Paula Vennells was Post Office CEO from 2012 to 2019. (P.A.) A petition calling for former Post Office chief executive Paula Vennells to be stripped of her CBE surpassed 500,000 signatures on Thursday night following the final episode of an ITV1 drama about the sub-postmasters scandal. Mr Bates vs The Post Office looks at the… Read More »
Alan Bates, right, is played by actor Toby Jones (left) in the ITV soap. (Getty/PA) The dramatization of the Post Office scandal has revived unfair lawsuits against hundreds of people. Mr Bates Against the Post Office, which aired over four nights on ITV1 this week, tells the real-life stories of sub-postmasters and sub-postmasters who were… Read More »