To the widely voiced reasons to admire Alan Bates, the heroically dogged leader of the campaign to achieve justice for the victims of the Post Office scandal, let me add another. The man is the master of under statement. When the government was finally impelled to announce it will legislate to quash hundreds of wrongful convictions, he said: “It’s about time.” Most of us would have inserted at least a “bloody” into that response.
This swamp of malignancy has been devouring innocent people for a quarter of
