Britain’s worst miscarriage of justice sparks outrage at last
A TV drama shines a spotlight on a Post Office scandal that has been known about for years
“WE’VE JUST got to trust in the British justice system and everything will be all right.” So says a wretched Lee Castleton (whose character is played by Will Mellor) in “Mr Bates v The Post Office”, a new ITV drama about hundreds of sub-postmasters who were wrongfully convicted in an accounting scandal between 1999 and 2015. British justice did not make everything all right for Mr Castleton. Far from it.
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This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “How a scandal became a drama ”
Britain January 13th 2024
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