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Alan Bates, the relentless advocate for the wrongly convicted Post Office subpostmasters, blasts the government’s compensation scheme as an “utter disaster,” calling for an independent body to run it instead. After two decades of fighting, he says the current system is overly legalistic and intimidating, causing many victims to abandon claims despite being contacted. With over $1.48 billion paid to more than 11,500 claimants, thousands remain pending as the government winds down the program — all stemming from the faulty Horizon IT system that falsely accused 900 operators of theft between 1999 and 2015, convictions finally overturned this year.

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