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Paula Vennells, former CEO of the Post Office, has made a statement on the final day of the Horizon IT inquiry, claiming that her senior team did not inform her of key information. However, Vennells stated that she did not want to blame others for the scandal, and her comments were met with groans and laughter from sub-postmasters at the inquiry. More than 900 sub-postmasters were prosecuted due to shortfalls in their accounts caused by bugs in the Horizon IT system.
Vennells’ lawyer named several ex-colleagues, including Angela van den Bogerd, who she claimed did not inform her about pertinent facts related to the scandal. Samantha Leek, Vennells’ lawyer, said her client did not manage to uncover the truth about the bugs, errors, and defects in the software. However, she added that Vennells did not receive information from her senior team, whom she trusted and delegated responsible roles to.
The UK government stated it would pay compensation to sub-postmasters who suffered losses due to shortfalls in the Post Office IT system prior to Horizon. The government has also requested that the Post Office “urgently review its files” to ensure that no one was wrongfully convicted of a Horizon-style injustice. The Capture accounting system was used from 1992 to 1999, when it was replaced by Horizon.
Vennells was the CEO of the Post Office from 2012 to 2019 and was network director of the organisation for five years. Her statement is one of the last to be heard in the inquiry, which has received 780 witness statements and dealt with over 2.2 million pages of disclosure. The inquiry was established in September 2020 to investigate the Horizon scandal that caused numerous sub-postmasters financial difficulties due to errors in the Post Office IT system
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