Alan Bates to get multi-million-pound payout over Post Office scandal
Alan Bates has been campaigning for Post Office victims for over 20 years
Between 1999 and 2015, more than 900 sub-postmasters were wrongly prosecuted after the faulty Horizon IT system indicated shortfalls in Post Office branch accounts.
The exact sum paid to Sir Alan has not been made public and he has not responded to requests for comment.
The payout for Sir Alan comes more than 20 years after he started campaigning for justice
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