The scandal that has destroyed the lives of hundreds of British postal workers has sparked public outrage once again after a TV drama based on the story aired in the UK at the start of the year.
Due to faulty computer software, some 230 postal employees were wrongfully imprisoned on theft and fraud charges. Countless more were charged with comparable offenses.
Sub-postmaster Alan Bates’s court battle against the Post Office, which had wrongly accused him and almost 3,500 other people of robbing the UK postal service, was recorded in Mr. Bates v. the Post Office: The Real Story.
After the four-part miniseries aired, the number of signatures on an ongoing petition demanding the removal of an official honor from former.
