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04.01.2024 - 05:41 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Scots victims of the Horizon scandal have backed calls to strip a former Post Office chief of a top honour amid a furious public backlash to a new hard-hitting drama.
ITV's Mr Bates Vs The Post Office has this week depicted what has been branded the most widespread miscarriage of justice in the UK, when a faulty computer system led to hundreds of former postmasters being wrongly blamed for missing cash.
The real people whose lives were shattered hope the show will help see former CEO Paula Vennells and other senior Post Office figures at the helm at the time of the scandal finally being held to account.
Anne Quarm, who recently saw late husband, North Uist postmaster William’s conviction overturned, said: “This has taken away our lives and it’s just horrendous to think people like that should be honoured when they’re behind this terrible injustice. It’s insulting and it’s painful.
“Our family’s lives have been destroyed and no matter what compensation anyone gets it will never return to us what we had.
“We’re all getting older and we’d like to finally see justice being done.”
More than 700 people were prosecuted for theft and false accounting between 2000 and 2014 after the Post Office’s flawed Fujitsu IT system incorrectly suggested catalogues of financial shortfalls - with some serving jail time.
Over 70 Scots workers were forced to pay out thousands to the Post Office during this time.
Ms Vennells - the CEO of the Post Office from 2012 to 2019 - was awarded a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2019 New Year Honours List for services to the organisation.
She apologised for the “suffering” caused to subpostmasters following a series of quashed convictions two years later.
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There are “countless” secret victims of the Post Office’s Horizon scandal in Scotland who “buried” their trauma, a campaigning Scots MP said yesterday.
The ITV drama Mr Bates vs. the Post Office has become the British broadcaster’s biggest new drama in over a decade, beating even the launch of Downton Abbey back in 2010.
A lawyer representing hundreds of Horizon victims says Scotland is “lagging behind” in the race to exonerate wronged sub-postmasters as convicted Scots face court again today.
Despite starring in the ITV series that has gripped the nation and caused the PM to agree to a new law, Mr Bates actor Toby Jones was spotted looking like any regular commuter, as he caught the London Tube.Toby, 57, plays Alan Bates in ITV's Mr Bates vs The Post Office, a series based on the real-life story of the Post Office Horizon scandal, which has been described as “the most widespread miscarriage of justice in British legal history”. It focuses on the huge scandal that occurred between 1999 and 2015, in which 700 Post Office branch managers were wrongly accused of theft, after faulty software made it appear money was missing from their outlets.
A health worker who stabbed herself outside a hospital before claiming she had been attacked has been convicted of wasting police time.
Labour and the Liberal Democrats have slammed Stephen Flynn for having a go at the "Westminster establishment" over the Horizon scandal.
Everyone in Scotland convicted as part of the Horizon Post Office scandal will be cleared, Humza Yousaf has said.
A new law will be introduced to exonerate hundreds of Post Office branch managers caught up in the Horizon IT scandal.
ITV's new drama series, Mr Bates vs The Post Office has sparked fury across the country as the post office scandal which saw hundreds of postmasters being wrongfully accused of fraud has been brought to light.
The creator of a petition calling for former Post Office boss Paula Vennells to hand back her CBE following the Horizon scandal has said it is 'fantastic' that she has lost her honour.
Victims of the Post Office scandal from Greater Manchester have powerfully spoken out to reveal how false charges wrecked their lives.
A move to consider automatic pardons for Scots victims of the Horizon scandal was celebrated last night by wrongly-convicted post masters.
Actors and staff behind an ITV drama about the Post Office Horizon IT scandal have been left “proud and overwhelmed by the power our drama has had”.