Horizon IT scandal campaigner Alan Bates has been made a knight, accepting the honour after Paula Vennells, the disgraced former Post Office chief executive, was forced to hand back her own.Sir Alan accepted the award for services to justice in the King’s Birthday Honours List, six months after declining the offer of an OBE.
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