The UK Post Office Horizon Public Inquiry resumes today almost four years after it began, with public interest in the scandal having skyrocketed thanks to a TV drama. Giving evidence today is the hero of that series, Alan Bates, who led a group litigation against the Post Office in 2017.
Alan Bates has now finished giving evidence to the public inquiry, which will reconvene tomorrow at 10am. The inquiry was also shown a letter from Jo Swinson in 2015, when she was the Post Office minister.
It was a repeat of similar comments he made in front of the business committee, when he proposed the organisation should be sold to the online giant"for £1". "It should be sold to someone like Amazon," he says. In one paragraph, he says he believed the mediation scheme failed as it was"part of a cover-up by the Post Office".
While the wrongful convictions that came about due to the Horizon issues did not happen on his watch, he is in charge of the compensation scheme which is still a point of contention for many affected. He said at the time that"the further the scheme progresses, the more entrenched and defensive Post Office becomes". "Once these cases were being investigated, in theory, by Post Office, they were asking for more and more time," he says.
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