Post Office inquiry latest: Alan Bates recalls 'offensive' remarks by Ed Davey - as termination letter revealed
A comic misspeak sees Mr Bates suggest that Post Office should be sold to"someone like Horizon" - meaning to reference Amazon, in what he meant to be a repeat of similar comments he made in front of the business committee, when he suggested the organisation should be sold to Jeff Bezos' giant company"for £1". "It should be sold to someone like Amazon.
In one paragraph, he says he believed the mediation scheme failed as it was"part of a cover-up by the Post Office". While the wrongful convictions that came about due to the Horizon issues did not happen on his watch, he is in charge of the compensation scheme which is still a point of contention for many affected.
He said at the time that"the further the scheme progresses, the more entrenched and defensive Post Office becomes". "Once these cases were being investigated, in theory, by Post Office, they were asking for more and more time," he says.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
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