All news on the topic: Mr Bates vs The Post Office

The former chief executive broke down in tears today during a grilling over the scandal that ruined the lives of hundreds - including Alan Bates - at the Horizon IT Inquiry

Paula Vennells, the former Post Office CEO, received help from her her 'computer literate' engineer husband to avoid certain words related to problems with Horizon, emails showed

A long-awaited report will begin to start correcting the awful and unforgivable wrong faced by those whose blood was contaminated in the 1970s and 1980s, but justice won't be done until prosecutions are made

Jo Hamilton, whose story was told in ITV drama 'Mr Bates vs The Post Office', spoke out ahead of former Post Office boss Paula Vennells' appearance at the Inquiry this week

Former head of IT at the scandal-hit organisation Lesley Sewell told the official Inquiry the ex-CEO Paula Vennells contacted her four times in 2020 and 2021

Former Post Office communications director Mark Davies heaped praise on ex-chief executive Paula Vennells, who led the organisation as it hounded innocent postmasters

Glastonbury Festival-goers Former will see postmaster Christopher Head discuss the scandal alongside Billy Bragg and Labour MP Kate Osborne, after ITV’s drama series Mr Bates vs the Post Office next month

The Post Office's former head in-house lawyer Chris Aujard said he felt that criminal prosecutions 'cause great distress and anxiety and didn’t have a place' in the Post Office

Ex-subpostmistress Seema Misra, who was wrongly convicted while pregnant, said she was 'angry' listening to ex-Post Office investigator Jon Longman's evidence to the Horizon IT Inquiry

Ex-subpostmistress Seema Misra, who was sentenced to 15 months in 2010, said she still has nightmares about her imprisonment and that she did not accept David Smith’s apology

Tory peer James Arbuthnot, who doggedly campaigned on the scandal, told the official inquiry that he believed the Post Office was 'stringing MPs along' to defend the faulty Horizon IT system

Campaigning hero Alan Bates told the Horizon IT inquiry the Post Office has spent the last 23 years trying to 'discredit and silence me'

As campaigning hero Alan Bates gives evidence to the Post Office inquiry, the Mirror takes a look at the four victims who lost their lives in tragic circumstances after being accused

Recordings from 2013, obtained by Channel 4, appear to show that the Post Office and tech giant Fujitsu knew that accounts could be accessed remotely without subpostmasters knowledge

In a mammoth evidence session in Parliament, MPs grilled former subpostmasters and Post Office bosses about delays to compensation to victims of the Horizon IT scandal

Paula Vennells, former head of the Post Office, received a CBE in 2019, however she faced angered calls for the honour to be stripped following the harrowing Mr Bates vs The Post Office drama on ITV

Liam Byrne, chair of the Commons Business Committee, demanded Post Office bosses and ministers end the blame game and get cheques in the post to victims of the Horizon scandal

Victims of the Horizon IT scandal accused ministers of not matching their words with action as a former Post Office boss claimed he'd been told to delay compensation payments

Henry Staunton, who was chair of the Post Office, claimed a senior civil servant told him to stall on paying compensation to Horizon victims such as ex-postmaster Alan Bates

Will Mellor won huge praise for his performance in Mr Bates Vs The Post Office earlier this year, but the former Coronation Street star was very close to quitting acting before landing the ITV role

Former Post Office boss Paula Vennells was forced to hand back her CBE after more than a million people signed a petition demanding she was stripped of the award

Raymond Grant said he still believes postmaster William Quarm stole cash from his branch in North Uist, Scotland - despite his wrongful conviction being overturned

Fujitsu manager Peter Sewell made the remarks about subpostmaster Lee Castleton in a 2006 email ahead of his legal case with the Post Office over apparent shortfalls

The PM is refusing to ban Fujitsu from getting Government contracts despite the firm admitting it knew about faults in its Horizon system that led to postmasters being wrongly prosecuted

Sami Sabet, 68, says he lost almost £3million and was diagnosed with PTSD after he was wrongly convicted of stealing from post offices under the Horizon scandal