The former sub-postmaster who helped uncover the Horizon scandal, Alan Bates, has said he’s “shocked” to receive a knighthood as part of the King’s birthday honours.
Campaigner Alan Bates was given a knighthood in the King's Birthday Honours for his role in highlighting the Horizon scandal, after Post Office boss Paula Vennells returned her CBE.
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A former post office branch manager who campaigned to expose a vast miscarriage of justice has been given a knighthood by King Charles III. Alan Bates is among more than 1,000 people,…
POST Office hero Alan Bates has been awarded a knighthood in the King’s Birthday Honours for his relentless quest to win justice for wrongly jailed sub-postmasters.
POST Office hero Alan Bates has been awarded a knighthood in the King’s Birthday Honours for his relentless quest to win justice for wrongly jailed sub-postmasters.
Post Office hero Alan Bates – who has led a 20-year campaign to expose the Horizon computer system scandal – is to receive a knighthood in the King's Birthday Honours after previously rejecting an OBE
'I considered turning it down,' the subpostmaster tells i - revealing he learned of his honour as ex-chief executive Paula Vennells was grilled over her role in the scandal