one of the investigators, he signed a witness statement expressing full confidence in the horizon system. he was asked why did you write that? and he said because it was written for me by lawyers and i signed it. and he was asked how he felt about that, that he had signed that statement and he said it was wrong, looking at it now, it was wrong. he was pushed on that point. what was put to him by the council was that those statements led to people being put in prison. there were sub postmaster is sent to prison on the basis of statements expressing full confidence in the horizon system. the other thing he was questioned about this morning was his conduct in those interviews that he held with sub postmasters who he was investigating. because those sub postmaster is over the years have been claiming, alleging, that they were subject to intimidating, threatening and at times cruel interrogation by these sub postmasters. .. interrogation by these sub postmasters. by these sub post
The shamed ex-Post Office CEO has appeared before the Horizon IT Inquiry. One revelation has been the advice she sought from her husband s over bugs in the company s IT system.
Paula Vennells, the former Post Office CEO, received help from her her 'computer literate' engineer husband to avoid certain words related to problems with Horizon, emails showed
The former chief executive and archbishop’s confidant appears at the Horizon IT inquiry this week to explain her role in the affair that wrecked the lives of so many of her staff