Mr Bates vs The Post Office on ITV: What it's about, full cast, when it's on and how many episodes there are
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA new year brings plenty of new drama series to get stuck into. The latest from ITV follows the shocking real-life story of the Post Office scandal, which has been unfolding for the past two decades.
Mr Bates vs the Post Office tells of one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British legal history. Hundreds of innocent sub-postmasters and postmistresses - the people who run post office branches - were wrongly accused of theft, fraud, and false accounting due to a defective IT system.
Many of the wronged workers were prosecuted and some were imprisoned for crimes they never committed. Their lives were irreparably damaged by the scandal. Try MEN Premium now with our amazing New Year offer...
just click here to give it a go. Toby Jones, who recently appeared in ITV's The Long Shadow, stars as Alan Jones, a sub-postmaster who lost his job after refusing to pay for lost earnings caused by the scandal.
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