Sir Alan Bates agrees multimillion-pound settlement over Post Office scandal

Sir Alan Bates said in May that he had been handed a ‘take it or leave it’ compensation offer of less than half his original claim. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

Sir Alan Bates has agreed a multimillion-pound settlement with the government more than two decades after he began the campaign for justice for post office operators over the Horizon IT scandal.

Bates has previously accused the government of presiding over a “quasi-kangaroo court” system for compensation, and last year said that post office operators may return to court over delays with settling claims.