The campaigner Sir Alan Bates, who has been at the helm of legal action against the Post Office for the Horizon scandal, has reached a settlement with the government.
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Between 1999 and 2015, more than 900 subpostmasters were wrongly prosecuted after the faulty IT system showed shortalls in branch accounts.
20 years after he began campaigning, Sir Bates has reportedly reached a seven figure pay-out.
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