Lord James Arbuthnot, who campaigned for Sub-postmasters wrongly accused in the Horizon scandal, has told ITV News that the former head of the Post Office, Paula Vennells, should face 'serious consequences'. ITV News Investigations Editor Daniel Hewitt reports
As the head of the Post Office between 2012 and 2019, Ms Vennells was in charge when Sub-postmasters were wrongly pursued and prosecuted for theft and fraud. "If in a week's time some bloody whistleblower pipes up to say, well, actually I was working on the second floor and we routinely did ‘X’."At the meeting, Mr Warmington and Mr Henderson expressed their concerns that the Post Office was not being transparent about the possibility of branch accounts being accessed by Fujitsu workers remotely.
The Post Office would continue to deny remote access to Horizon was possible until 2019, six years after this meeting. “The consequences should be very serious indeed. They are not for me as a politician to establish, those seem to me to be things which should be dealt with by prosecuting authorities and by a judge and jury.
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