Post Office Scandal, Alan Bates Compensation Offer, Slough, Berkshire, UK - 05 Feb 2024
Slough, UK. 5th February, 2024. A Post Office in Slough, Berkshire. Alan Bates a victim of the Fujitsu Horizon software, has reportedly now received an offer of compensation. The former sub-postmaster, whose story featured in an ITV drama, said in a letter seen by BBC Two's Newsnight that the scheme needed a "radical boot up the backside". He said he received a "cruel" compensation offer on Wednesday. Between the years of 1999 and 2015, the Post Office prosecuted hundreds of sub-postmasters and postmistresses based on Fujitsu's faulty Horizon IT system