Horizon scandal: Alan Bates takes stand in Post Office inquiry - watch live

Alan Bates - the real life hero of the ITV drama Mr Bates vs the Post Office, in which he is played by Toby Jones - will take the stand at Aldwych House, in central London

[@deborahkennedy1398]

Much respect & 1000000% support to Mr Bates and ALL the sub postmasters and their families. I am so sorry you’ve had to go through this, especially with these so called professional government officials. From DK in Nottingham Maryland USA 🙏🙏🙏💔💔👍👍👍

[@blufifi]

Alan Bates is totally a strong brilliant caring man. Like a rat with a piece of cheese he’ll never give up! He wants nothing but justice for himself and all these people harmed in this disgusting coverup. Truth will win over evil. Alan Bates you’re a saint! A true David and Goliath.

[@andrewsmith9933]

Not all superheros wear capes! Sadly very few people have the kind of dedication and integrity to make a stand for whats right in the face of such adversity.

[@theoriet8723]

Excellent candidate for the vacant CBE...

[@chrisbudesa9355]

Paula had her CBE revoked.

[@MrGavinBoyd]

Will any of those responsible go to prison?

[@davidobrien7235]

No, its a corrupt system, we the people are fodder.

[@charlottedurden2050]

Jason Beer is spectacular in this role!

[@leso204]

So 73k of letters/files have just been found' did someone at the PO trip over a filling cabinet they never noticed before ??

[@scottbaileyActivstudios]

British gas is also on horizon system and its been found that 4 million meters have not been functioning correctly and over charging double! Please look into British Gas

[@pithywriter]

Can we have more details about this ?

[@AlisonDavies-vj9un]

Omg today the enquiry is discussing poor training , these post masters were telling the management nothing was totaling up , they knew what they were doing with the computer , Paula must go to jail on manslaughter charges due to suicides and not an open prison either , lord Arbuthnot is saying we didn't get to the bottom of this or that , Paula on about postmasters honesty what an insult a joke , she the preacher how dishonest has she been ,omg she is a disgusting human being what these people have been through is absolutely unacceptable , post office and parliament absolutely corrupt. Now Arbuthnot saying money owing doubling up in front of their eyes he couldn't believe and also saying some postmasters were putting their hands in the till and he didn't believe Joanne. Angela who worked along side religious paula must also go to jail , I pray heads will role it won't ease people s pain or bring back those who gave up their lives , it won't help these people's mental health back due to being accused of stealing , it won't take away people's jail time experiences and how it affected their lives , they lost everything, how do they sleep at night,😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮

[@vickydimitriou6156]

Well I’m going to clap 👏🏻 Mr Bates he deserves a knighthood for his dogged determination to get the truth and more important the $ taken from many and to get compensation, especially Mr Bates whom has still not been given a decent amount for over 20 years, how disgusting, shame on the powers that be that still are taking so many years to pay these poor people justice.

[@user-wn2ul7xj1k]

Well done Michael bunch of crooks. .

[@user-rb8lo3vn9v]

He has the intelligence and tenacity of Baroness Doreen Lawrence and let's hope his action is able to see those responsible pay for theirs.

[@mrlawilliamsukwarmachine4904]

The ‘systemic failures’ thing is like NLP gaslighting.

[@Giblet-sf9lk]

Absolutely appalling way the post office have dealt with things past and present absolutely disgusting

[@EdgyNumber1]

Remember, if you are in a meeting with your adversary... RECORD EVERYTHING so you can recall it later.

[@mriggst]

That's the trouble with this country there's the odd few who don't roll over. Don't tow the line as they should.

[@janeevans1859]

Alan Bates was a victim and took on this role because of his personal integrity and moral values. He did over and beyond any duty to anyone but himself. It took ivermectin his life and took him into a world that he was the David in a Goliath situation. (Don’t come for me). He did an amazing job. Over and beyond in so many ways. If not for him, we wouldn’t be watching this now. Who does anyone know that would have done what Alan did?

[@Annie-ez4ol]

Tower of a man.

[@juju1957k]

How dare pv say she is disappointed with Alan for breeching a working group it's laughable after what po has done to the post masters wow 😮

[@alexmac101]

1:57:48 Fundamentally despicable. Like something out of the Erin Brockovich movie. Andrew Parsons needs to start preparing himself for potential prison cell coloured future

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Dash🎉

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Universal credit

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Bless

[@mrlawilliamsukwarmachine4904]

Bates talks a bit too much at times.

[@nigelsmith2044]

He protests too much...

[@clickpositive]

@@nigelsmith2044 You cannot protest too much, when protesting at about this injustice to postmasters and mistresses. Lives ruined by the post office errors being redireted on to the postmasters and mistresses. The post office clearly broke the law and harmed postmasters and mistresses to hide the post office's computer system faults.

[@rodlayne8527]

Really?!!!!!

[@rodlayne8527]

....and the bosses are saying too little!!!!

[@janeevans1859]

I think he has waited long enough to be heard. 20 + years .