STELLAR CAST ANNOUNCED FOR ITV SERIES MR BATES VS THE POST OFFICE!

And so many British thespians in it: ITV series MR BATES VS THE POST OFFICE will see  Toby Jones play Alan Bates, the former subpostmaster who successfully took the Post Office to the High Court after hundreds of his colleagues had been wrongly accused of theft, fraud and false accounting due to a defective IT system. Ian Hart, Alex Jennings, Will Mellor, Monica Dolan, Adam James, Shaun Dooley will all also star. One of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British legal history, saw many of

Toby Jones, Will Mellor, Adam James will star

the wronged workers prosecuted, some even imprisoned for crimes they never committed, and their lives were irreparably ruined by the scandal. Following the landmark Court of Appeal decision to overturn their criminal convictions, dozens of former sub-postmasters have been exonerated on all counts as they battled to clear their names for over ten years finally proving their innocence and sealing a resounding victory, but all involved believe the fight is not over yet, not by a long way.