Jan 1, 2024
Post Office scandal TV drama 'like a dream' say victims
For the unassuming former sub-postmaster who was instrumental in exposing one of the biggest miscarriages of justice the UK has ever seen, seeing his life portrayed on the screen in a prime time national TV drama feels "a bit strange". Alan Bates had no desire to find himself in the limelight when he began, then drove the campaign to expose the Post Office Horizon IT scandal. The drama encapsulates a 20-year struggle in four hours of TV. "I think it's the nearest I've seen yet to demonstrating what it was like for some of the people," says Mr Bates. Still campaigning, Mr Bates says he hopes the drama will increase the pressure on the government to pay full compensation to those people still waiting. The actor, who won a Bafta after playing Rosemary West in the 2011 drama Appropriate Adult, said she was shocked at the things she discovered as she learnt more about the scandal, for example, that the Post Office could carry out its own criminal investigations.
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