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Sub-postmasters still going through hell, lead campaigner Sir Alan Bates says

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More than 240 former sub-postmasters are still waiting for financial compensation years after they won their High Court battle.

Hundreds wrongly accused of stealing from their Post Office branches between 1999 and 2015 as a result of faulty Horizon computer software.

Sir Alan Bates has described government officials as living in "ivory towers totally removed from the hell the victims have gone through".

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