Katherine Kelly, who played Angela van den Bogerd in the ITV drama 'Mr Bates Vs The Post Office', avoided press interviews to ensure the focus remained on the subpostmasters wrongly convicted in the Horizon scandal. She prioritized giving more airtime to the actors portraying the victims and their real-life counterparts, highlighting the gravity of the 'worst miscarriage of justice in British legal history.'
Katherine Kelly said ‘things are not as they should be’ after the Post Office scandal It has been over a year since Mr Bates Vs The Post Office sent shockwaves through the nation as many discovered the horrors of the Horizon scandal for the first time. The ITV drama sparked renewed attention on securing justice for the subpostmasters who were wrongly convicted for cash shortfalls caused by an IT failure. It had a colossal impact – including the creation of a new law.
Katherine continues: ‘I wanted them to have the spotlight and I felt that it shouldn’t be on Angela anymore, so I’m going to stick with that really because I feel like that’s the right look.’ While there has been progress in the wake of Mr Bates Vs The Post Office, this year The Commons Business and Trade Committee said compensation for victims is still not being paid ‘fast enough.’ Katherine agrees there is ‘still a long way to go.’ She says: ‘Things are still not as they should be.
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