The Communication Workers Union (CWU) of the UK has issued a press release, following the massive public response to the ITV drama Mr Bates vs the Post Office, which aired final week.
The four-part drama depicted the injustice suffered by a whole bunch of harmless British postmasters, who have been convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting by their Post Office employers when defective software program brought about accounting errors to seem in native submit workplaces across the nation. With many imprisoned for offences they didn’t commit, the debacle has been referred to as the best miscarriage of justice in British authorized historical past.
Alan Bates of the title was the postmaster who campaigned for years to have the convictions overturned. He is performed within the drama by actor Toby Jones.
In the times because the drama aired, 1000’s of British viewers have demanded that the Post Office’s former CEO Paula Vennells – the boss who oversaw the operation – be stripped of her CBE.
Now the CWU’s National Officer Andy Furey has joined these voices saying:
“The CWU totally reiterates our demand that the federal government strips former Chief Executive Officer Paula Vennells of her CBE – this honour for Post Office providers is an insult to each postmaster who have been handled so abhorrently below her management.
He added: “Mr Bates vs the Post Office has been a tremendously transferring depiction of such a harrowing story that has rightly been described as the best miscarriage of justice ever seen within the UK.
“Alan Bates and the Justice For Sub-Postmaster Alliance have to be lauded for his or her tireless efforts to reveal the disgraceful actions of the Post Office.
“The emotional response from throughout the nation has been a vindication for Alan Bates and people who fought a campaign to overturn the Post Office institution, who closed ranks to defend the Horizon (IT) system – regardless that this meant Postmasters being imprisoned for crimes they didn’t commit.
“It has additionally been vindicating for CWU members within the Post Office, who’ve supported the efforts of the JFSA in preventing this injustice for effectively over a decade.
“Sadly, this fight was necessary as hundreds of Postmasters were let down and abandoned by the National Federation of Sub-Postmasters, who failed them every step of the way due to their blind and unquestionable support for the Post Office Board.”
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