Sunday, April 7 at 8
Based on the real-life British Post Office scandal, Mr Bates and The Post Office set off a firestorm of public outrage forcing the British Prime Minister to act.
Following one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British legal history, Mr Bates vs The Post Office was created with direct input from the innocent – and indomitable – people caught up in it. When money started to seemingly disappear from its local branches, the government-owned Post Office wrongly blamed their own managers for its apparent loss. For more than 20-years hundreds were accused of theft and fraud, and many were even sent to prison – leaving lives, marriages, and reputations in ruins. But the issue was caused by errors in the Post Office’s own computer system – something it denied for years.