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Campaigning hero Alan Bates told the Horizon IT inquiry the Post Office has spent the last 23 years trying to 'discredit and silence me'
The 70-year-old laughed as he suggested that Nick Read, who attended the inquiry today, could have sorted out remediation for his case 'there and then' while they were in the room together.
Mr Bates called the organisation a ‘dead duck’ that is ‘beyond saving’ during his evidence on Tuesday.
In Mr Bates Vs The Post Office, the ITV drama that introduced the scandalous treatment of sub-postmasters to a mass audience, Toby Jones portrayed its eponymous hero as stubborn, acerbic and indefatigable.
Having waited almost two decades for the opportunity, the real-life campaigner from the Post Office scandal set out the case against the business that ruined the lives of so many.