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Sep 25, 2026
Oliver BulloughNARRATOR
If it wasn't for what has been going on elsewhere in the post office, this would be a major story.
Oliver BulloughNARRATOR
Instead, it has been largely ignored The Post Office Horizon scandal burst into the public consciousness thanks to 2024's ITV drama, Mr. Bates vs. the Post Office.
Oliver BulloughNARRATOR
But by that stage, it had been dragging on for two decades.
Oliver BulloughNARRATOR
Post Office Limited wrongly prosecuted hundreds of its post office operatives, despite senior figures knowing that the computer program that supposedly showed they had been committing fraud was faulty.
Oliver BulloughNARRATOR
Ex-post office operative Alan Bates' landmark victory against his former employers in 2019 forced the government to overturn his and others' convictions and to promise to pay hundreds of millions of pounds in compensation.
Oliver BulloughNARRATOR
The scandal is one of Britain's worst miscarriages of justice.
Oliver BulloughNARRATOR
One of its unfortunate side effects is that it has impeded investigations into how much money is being laundered via post office branches.
Oliver BulloughNARRATOR
Even if police officers are themselves confident that figures originating in Post Office Limited Horizon software, a version of which is still being used, are reliable, they are aware that many jury members will, for understandable reasons, be intensely sceptical.
Andrew BridgenGUEST
We now know it was a very...
Andrew BridgenGUEST
And I know the full story, and the full story's never come out, because even Mr Bates in the post office was a cover-up.
Andrew BridgenGUEST
That was a cover-up by ITV, because that's not the full story.
Andrew BridgenGUEST
They didn't want my evidence in the public inquiry, because my constituent wasn't the result of a computer error.
GregHOST
you know,
Andrew BridgenGUEST
unsheathing the sword of truth.
Andrew BridgenGUEST
And if you look in Hansard, everything that was in that programme 10 years later, Mr. Bates, I'd said it all in Parliament, in debates I'd got about the post office and Horizon System and all Mr. and Mrs. Rodkin's story.
Andrew BridgenGUEST
I'd said it all in 2008.
Ed ReyesHOST
No, it doesn't, does
Paul RogersonHOST
it? But conversely, you had, I think, was it in the post office scandal, you had Alan Bates saying, well, if we hadn't had access to litigation funding, then...
Paul RogersonHOST
you know, there wouldn't have been any access to justice.
Paul RogersonHOST
So it depends which stance you want to take.