Alan Bates is a former sub-postmaster who led the campaign to expose the Post Office Horizon IT scandal.
Bates founded the Justice for Sub-postmasters Alliance, and he and five others took the Post Office to the High Court in 2017.
He continues to campaign for all sub-postmasters affected by the Horizon software failure and for fair compensation from the government.
Bates’ two-decade fight inspired the recent ITV mini-series – Mr Bates vs the Post Office – which told the story of hundreds of sub-postmasters and postmistresses who were wrongly prosecuted after a faulty accounting system suggested money was missing from Post Office branches.