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Watch live as Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom - a member of the Horizon Compensation Advisory Board gives evidence to the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry on Wednesday 10 April.
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.
The Horizon IT Inquiry in London was shown slides from a presentation about the system prepared by a former Post Office manager, which claimed Alan Bates 'clearly struggled with accounting'.
The UK Post Office Horizon Public Inquiry resumes today almost four years after it began, with public interest in the scandal having skyrocketed thanks to a TV drama. Giving evidence today was the hero of that series, Alan Bates, who led a group litigation against the Post Office in 2017.