Post Office campaigner Alan Bates has been knighted by Princess Anne at Windsor Castle.
The campaigner arrived for the ceremony in Berkshire with his wife Lady Suzanne Sercombe on Tuesday.Sir Alan, who founded the Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance, received his knighthood for exposing the Horizon IT scandal.He is one of more than 550 claimants who have brought legal action against the Post Office.Over 700 branch managers were given criminal convictions between 1999 and 2015 after faulty Fujitsu accounting software, Horizon, made it look as if money was missing at their branches.
"We're wanting a completion date guaranteed by the Government for the end of March next year, and it's quite achievable, according to legal discussions I've had," he said."I think we've got to get rid of the bureaucracy that's holding the whole thing up and driving it into the ground, and it's proving such a headache for so many of the victims who are still suffering after so many years."He went on to say: "The Post Office is as bad as ever.
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