Star-studded NTAs crowd boo as Post Office scandal victim slams government over handling of crisis
POST Office victim Jo Hamilton slammed the government and claimed Sir Alan Bates "has a plan" at the National Television Awards 2024.Toby Jones secured the best drama performance gong at the NTA's ror his role portraying former sub-postmaster Sir Alan Bate, where more than 700 branch managers - known as sub postmasters - were convicted of stealing from the company between 1999 and 2015.
Jo then went on to reveal that Alan Bates has only been offered 30 per cent of what he is trying to claim. The ITV drama helped renew attention to the subpostmasters who were wrongly prosecuted during the Horizon IT scandal.Several of the workers tried to pay back the “missing” money out of their own pockets.
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