Alan Bates: Post Office run by 'thugs in suits'
Alan Bates described Post Office bosses as “little more than thugs in suits”, the Horizon IT Inquiry heard.
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Alan Bates described Post Office bosses as “little more than thugs in suits”, the Horizon IT Inquiry heard.
The row over the Post Office scandal and the hundreds of victims who are yet to be fully compensated has dominated headlines.
So, now we know: the Post Office sacked Alan Bates because it called him “unmanageable”. Stick it on a T-shirt! Whack it on a hat! There’s no greater compliment in bureaucratic Britain than being impossible to manage, and at the Post Office Inquiry hearings in Aldwych House, we learnt how Bad Boy Bates gained his reputation.
A show about a British scandal in which hundreds of people were wrongly convicted of theft and had their lives destroyed starts on PBS on Sunday.
Rishi Sunak will unveil a scheme on Wednesday to exonerate wrongfully convicted sub-postmasters, as the Prime Minister said that “nothing can make up for what they’ve been through”.