Lead campaigner and former subpostmaster Alan Bates has said he has “no sympathy” for Paula Vennells after she broke down twice during her first day of evidence to the Horizon IT inquiry. Mr Bates said he met “senior” Metropolitan Police staff on Wednesday morning to discuss possible prosecutions following the Post Office Horizon scandal.
Mr Bates described her evidence “like figure skating on the head of a pin”. He told reporters: “It was a bit like figure skating on the head of a pin all day, isn’t hindsight a wonderful thing? Ms Vennells and Duncan Tait concurred it was “implausible” that Post Office branch accounts could be altered remotely. She also told the probe she did not know the extent of the Post Office’s criminal investigations and private prosecutions until 2012.
After detailing a number of cases in which the Post Office had not been successful after subpostmasters blamed Horizon, counsel to the inquiry Jason Beer KC asked: “Why were you telling these parliamentarians that every prosecution involving the Horizon system had been successful and had found in favour of the Post Office?”
Ms Vennells explained the assumption was based on “examples of cases” and what she had been told. She also appeared to become emotional as Mr Beer asked her about Mr Griffiths.
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