Former UK Post Office boss breaks down in inquiry over scandal that saw hundreds wrongly convicted

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LONDON—The former head of Britain’s Post Office Paula Vennells broke down in tears on several occasions as she gave evidence Wednesday to an inquiry into one of the country’s biggest miscarriages of justice that saw hundreds of branch managers wrongly convicted of theft or fraud because of a faulty...

Screen grab taken from the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry of former Post Office boss Paula Vennells becoming tearful for a second time whilst giving evidence to the inquiry at Aldwych House, as part of phases five and six of the probe, which is looking at governance, redress and how the Post Office and others responded to the scandal, in central London on Wednesday May 22, 2024.

After the Post Office introduced the Horizon information technology system 25 years ago to automate sales accounting, local managers began finding unexplained losses that bosses said they were responsible for covering. The company, which is state-owned but operates as a private business, has a unique function whereby it can prosecute its own staff without the need to contact police or state prosecutors. However, current executives said they couldn’t imagine using it again given what happened.

She also stopped mid-answer for a tissue when she was asked why she had told lawmakers in Parliament that the Post Office had been successful in every case against branch managers.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

 

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