LIne to unleash PolIce BrutalIty on muslIm protesters, and we have seen thIs In numerous other vIdeos of very peaceful protests takIng place where PolIce OffIcers are very aggressIvely arrestIng people, grabbIng flags off them and doIng thIs. I thInk thIs Is part of that contInuous behavIour. WhIte make you thInk there Is a pattern. On the other sIde people would say that there has been massIve and vocal condemnatIon, there Is a perceptIon polIce have been too permIssIve. CondemnatIon and vocal, what Is actually happenIng to the polIce . We havent seen any consequences for any offIcer, In partIcular, In recent InvolvIng muslIms. You mentIoned the tweet by the reform mp. When he says PolIce OffIcers, Its not rocket scIence, but you have offIcers, armed offIcers at aIrports and you shouldnt mess wIth them because they have splIt second judgments to make. There was no splIt second judgment to make there, the guy Is lyIng On The Floor and he chose to smack hIm In the face. That offIcer Is
conversation and i thought the progress was adequate as you have had given back to you by simon, so i don t have a gripe with that but i have a gripe with the overturned convictions and the fact it was so slow and we were getting nowhere and we were told it was not possible and then suddenly we had mr bates and then suddenly we had mr bates and then exoneration was possible. including the period you were responsible for? but you don t seem to want responsible for? but you don t seem to want to responsible for? but you don t seem to want to accept that your organisation when you were chair was part of organisation when you were chair was part of the organisation when you were chair was part of the problem. | organisation when you were chair was part of the problem. i do organisation when you were chair was part of the problem. part of the problem. i do think the ost office part of the problem. i do think the post office was part of the problem. i do think the post off
throughout the programme. it s tuesday, the 9th of january. our main story. two formerjustice secretaries one conservative, the other labour are leading calls for the government to introduce legislation to quash the convictions of those caught up in the post office it scandal. the postal affairs minister, kevin hollinrake, said various options were being looked at to speed up appeals and compensate the victims. he said more talks would be held today and he hoped to announced a solution very shortly. here s our political correspondent, peter saull. i m the sub postmaster, so i m locked in and everyone else is locked out. so if you want to see my account. this is a scandal going back decades, and now a tv drama watched by millions has pushed it to the top of the political agenda. i know it s probably me because i m really rubbish with technology, but.| ve declared my cash, i ve declared my stock, i ve done it all three times and i still can t get it to balance. mr bates vs
tonight, we speak live to the real alan bates, the man who dedicated years to bringing the post office scandal to light, and to the woman whose dramatisation for the small screen got a very big reaction. and to gwyneth hughes, the woman whose dramatisation for the small screen has had a very big reaction. wrongful convictions, more than 700 of them prison sentences, reputations trashed, bankruptcy, and now new cases. the post office scandal is only deepening. as we go on air, the petition to strip the former post office boss paula vennells of her cbe is well over a million and the prime minister has said he would support a review of it. it doesn t help the hundreds upon hundreds whose lives were all but destroyed and, in some cases, actually destroyed who will pay their compensation and when? we speak to the subpostmaster at the heart of itv s drama and the writer who s reignited an issue that had slipped from the public consciousness. and we ll be joined by the former
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