Post Office Scandal Victims Among Recipients in New Year Honours

Four sub-postmasters followed in the footsteps of Post Office campaigner Alan Bates, who was knighted in June.

Former sub-postmistress Seema Misra outside the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry at Aldwych House, in central London, England, on May 22, 2024. Jordan Pettitt/PA

Campaigners for sub-postmasters who helped to expose the Horizon IT scandal have been made Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBEs) for services to justice.

The Horizon IT scandal saw hundreds of Post Office employees wrongfully prosecuted between 1999 and 2015 after a faulty IT system falsely indicated financial discrepancies, leading to accusations of theft, fraud, and false accounting.