Mr Bates was dismissed by the Post Office in 2003.
Alan Bates became a household name after a TV drama shone a spotlight on how he was forced to lead a campaign on behalf of subpostmasters following one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in UK history.
Before his short-lived career as a subpostmaster, Mr Bates had a 12-year stint in the heritage and leisure project management sector.From around 1997, he and his partner Suzanne Sercombe began searching for an available Post Office branch as they thought that it would “bring secure employment”. Mr Bates’s problems began on December 13, as he noticed £6,000 went missing from his books – which he eventually discovered was from giro items being duplicated on the Horizon system.
On August 5 2003, he received a letter from his line manager Mike Wakley which gave him “three months’ notice of termination of your contract for services”. He has not held a job since his time as a subpostmaster, instead dedicating his time to his campaign for justice.Mr Bates founded the Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance in 2009 alongside other subpostmasters across the country in order to expose the truth about the scandal.
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