FORMER Post Office chief executive Paula Vennells quit as a non-executive director of high street chains Morrisons and Dunelm today in the wake of the postmaster miscarriage of justice scandal.
Ms Vennells, who ran the Post Office from 2012 to 2019, pursued prosecutions against hundreds of subpostmasters, accusing them of theft and false accounting.
On Friday, the Court of Appeal quashed the convictions of 39 former subpostmasters, saying that bosses knew there were “serious issues” with the Horizon IT system developed by Fujitsu but continued to bring criminal charges using data taken from it.
In a statement today, Morrisons chairman Andrew Higginson said that he wanted to thank Ms Vennells for her “significant contribution” to the supermarket giant, while Dunelm chairman Andy Harrison said that he “respected” her decision to resign.
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