Rev Vennells wept but couldn’t remember much about sending innocent subpostmasters to jail. All so long ago

As the former Post Office CEO faced the inquiry and her victims, she said ‘sorry’ a lot. About what? It was never really clearhe former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells would like the victims of the most widespread miscarriage of justice in British legal history to know that she, and that she honestly doesn’t understand how all this has happened. I guess she’s asking all the jailed and wrongly convicted subpostmasters to try to imagine being swept up in a Kafkaesque nightmare of undue blame.

By the way, when you exit the lift on the fifth floor of Aldwych House, a sign points you in one direction for the Infected Blood inquiry, and another for the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry. British officialdom’s supremely arrogant lack of curiosity: destroying lives since British officialdom began.

Oof. Top takeout? Paula Vennells is sorry in an incredibly passive-voice sort of way. She is sorry “that that was the case”, sorry “that it can be read like that”, sorry “for all that the subpostmasters and their families have suffered”. But who made it the case? Who wrote it like that? Who caused the subpostmasters and their families to suffer? Come on, Saint Paula: put your finger on it., the third most important position in the entire Church of England.

Into Britain’s angry pulpit steps Rev Vennells, who ran the Post Office – to explain why it sent honest people to jail | Marina HydeSpeaking of living her values, we must return, heartbreakingly, to the suicide of Martin Griffiths. Despite having been the victim of an armed robbery at his branch, Griffiths was deemed partly culpable for it as well as relentlessly pursued over a Horizon shortfall.

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