Paula Vennells was chief executive of the Post Office between 1999 and 2015 and was CEO during part of the Horizon scandal, which saw more than 900 subpostmasters wrongly convicted
Paula Vennells received a CBE in 2019, however she faced angered calls for her honour to be stripped following the harrowing Mr Bates vs The Post Office drama on ITV
Paula Vennells, former head of the Post Office, received a CBE in 2019, however she faced angered calls for the honour to be stripped following the harrowing Mr Bates vs The Post Office drama on ITV
Paula Vennells is the former head of the Post Office and was in charge when hundreds of innocent sub-postmasters were wrongfully convicted for theft, fraud and false accounting. She has now handed back her CBE following escalating calls for her to do so after the hard-hitting ITV drama
Mr Bates Vs The Post Office has left ITV viewers across the nation horrified with the emotional story of sub-postmasters whose lives were wrecked by a faulty computer system. But who is Paula Vennells and what exactly was her involvement in the shocking scandal?