Wanting to instead find a "non-emotive word for computer bugs, glitches, defects that happen as a matter of course", Vennells turned to her engineer husband and passed on his advice to then communications chief Mark Davies.
Post Office boss Paula Vennells is formally stripped of her CBE by the King for ‘bringing honours system into disrepute’ The 65-year-old ordained priest also became visibly upset as the inquiry looked into the Post Office's response to the suicide of subpostmaster Martin Griffiths in 2013. She told the inquiry an email she sent to colleagues which suggested the company's priority was to protect subpostmasters for whom the Horizon system was working "reads badly today".THE POST OFFICE SCANDAL - A TIMELINE OF KEY EVENTSAlan Bates reports issues with the Horizon IT system.Alan Bates has his contract terminated after refusing to accept liability for the shortfalls in the accounts at his Llandudno branch in North Wales.
"The first thing I would say on that is to apologise, because I'm very aware that that was not the case and it was an assumption I made."Former Subpostmaster calls for honestySeema, who was pregnant at the tie, was accused of stealing £74,000. An email chain between former Post Office general counsel Susan Crichton and Vennells was shown to the inquiry, in which the latter said "if it is an attempted suicide, as we sadly know, there are usually several contributory factors".
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