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The ITV show details how hundreds of sub-postmasters and postmistresses were wrongly accused.

The Met Police have failed to deliver in a three-year Post Office probe, a top Tory says.

More than 700 sub-postmasters were prosecuted between 1999 and 2015 in whats been deemed the biggest miscarriage of justice in British legal history. They were accused of theft, fraud and false accounting due to a faulty software system called Horizon.

The ITV show details how hundreds of sub-postmasters and postmistresses were wrongly accused.

Jennifer O’Dell, 74, the former Great Staughton sub-postmistress caught up in the Post Office Horizon scandal, has praised an ITV drama about it.

THE Post Office Horizon IT scandal has come under the spotlight following the release of the ITV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office.

The ITV show details how hundreds of sub-postmasters and postmistresses were wrongly accused.

Ms Vennells today said she is truly sorry for the devastation the scandal had caused to staff falsely accused of fraud when her organisation routinely denied there were problems with its systems.

The reaction to Mr Bates vs The Post Office proves that real power comes through human stories. Sunak and Starmer should take note

Mr Bates vs. The Post Office is the most watched programme of the year so far, and ITVs most popular drama of the last three years.