Post Office bosses ‘maintained the fiction’ the Horizon system was accurate but should have known it was faulty, the report ...

It comes after Sky News unearthed a report showing Post Office lawyers knew of faults in the software nearly three decades ...

Alan Bates had been in regular contact with his MP, James Arbuthnot, about the issue and in September 2009 he helped found the JFSA, or Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance, ...

Sir Alan Bates suggested victims of the Horizon scandal could be waiting until 2027 for all their claims to be settled - a forecast the government disputed - and told them it was time to go to court.

The Post Office Horizon scandal saw approximately 1,000 individuals wrongfully prosecuted and convicted. As the long-running ...

Alan Bates has now retired, but he is still working tirelessly to see that everyone affected has been compensated. "At 68, I would love to be able to take my foot off the pedal,” he said.

Sir Alan Bates poured his life savings into a Post Office branch in Llandudno, north Wales, but was sacked in 2003 after faulty Horizon software showed up discrepancies in his accounts.

Alan Bates in 2024 [Photo by Welsh Government/Llywodraeth Cymru / CC BY 3.0]. The scandal saw hundreds of sub-postmasters falsely accused of theft and fraud due to faults in the Horizon IT system ...