“Many of us are destitute … many of us are on medication for stress and depression. Many of us have been rejected by our families, who are ashamed by the allegation of cheating. Some of us have even attempted to take our own lives because we see no other way out.”
The pain in these words – contained in a despairing letter delivered to Whitehall in 2020 – recalls the emotional plight of post office operators caught up in the Horizon scandal. They were not, however, written by Alan Bates, but by a group of international students at the sharp end of another apparent miscarriage of justice – one that has also been hiding in plain sight.
