Toby Jones praises ‘extraordinary dignity’ of Post Office accused

Toby Jones praises ‘extraordinary dignity’ of Post Office accused

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 accused of stealing because of faulty software, in the ITV drama that put the scandal back in the spotlight.

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