Toby Jones praises ‘extraordinary dignity’ of Post Office accused
by Rachel Hall from on (#6N7G1)
Actor, who played campaigner Alan Bates in TV drama, calls Horizon scandal a Hitchcockian nightmare' at Hay festival
The post office operators prosecuted in the Post Office Horizon scandal have extraordinary dignity" after living 20 years in a Hitchcockian nightmare", according to actor Toby Jones.
Jones played Alan Bates, a former post office operator and leading campaigner for justice for staff wrongly blamed for accounting shortfalls caused by faulty software, in the ITV drama that put the scandal back in the spotlight.
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