Post Office ‘paid out cash bonuses’ for every subpostmaster convicted during Horizon scandal
One investigator said teams had called all subpostmasters "crooks" and assumed that everybody was guilty.
One investigator said teams had called all subpostmasters "crooks" and assumed that everybody was guilty.
“I mean, it is absolutely fatuous for this government to claim, ‘hey, we’re really acting now’.”
"You have to understand that before this week not one drama starring Toby Jones had been made on the subject. Not one."
The ITV show details how hundreds of sub-postmasters and postmistresses were wrongly accused.
Paula Vennells oversaw the organisation while it routinely denied there were problems with its Horizon IT system.
Millions of Brits were left outraged by the re-telling of the Horizon Post Office scandal on ITV - and Paula Vennells is in the firing line.
Mr Bates vs The Post Office has caused outrage among viewers.
Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer have both resisted backing calls for a former Post Office boss to lose her CBE over the Horizon scandal.
Alan Bates turned down an OBE, saying it would be a "slap in the face" to the other postmasters who suffered at the hands of the ex-Post Office CEO.
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