Whistleblower Richard Roll played a key role in the case the falsely accused sub-postmasters brought against the Post Office - here we explain who he was.
Viewers of ITV ’s hit drama Mr Bates Vs The Post Office were appalled at the treatment of the hundreds of sub-postmasters wrongly accused of fraudulent financial activities and in one episode they saw the company behind the faulty IT system changing figures remotely.
In 1999 a new centralised computer programme, Horizon, was introduced by the Post Office to replace traditional paper accounting and it was supplied by Japanese company Fujitsu. It was installed at around 14,000 branches but problems quickly arose and shortfalls in accounting suddenly started to occur, with the finger of blame being pointed at the sub-postmasters.
The new four-part ITV series is based on the story and features one of the sub-postmasters, Alan Bates, who led the campaign for justice after he and hundreds of his colleagues were accused of theft and fraud over the faulty system.
Viewers saw how staff at Fujitsu could remotely alter financial figures entered by the sub-postmasters without their knowledge. In the drama, Michael Rudkin, a former executive officer from the National Federation of sub-postmasters, raises the concern and reveals how he visited the Fujitsu HQ in Bracknell.
While there to deal with a problem sub-postmasters were encountering at the time with the system he says he was shown how to manually fix the issue by the covert...
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