Post Office inquiry live: Ex-boss Paula Vennells cries and admits evidence to MPs wasn’t true – BBC News

May 22, 2024

Summary

Ex-Post Office boss Paula Vennells has been in tears at the inquiry into the Horizon scandal
She broke down when acknowledging that what she told MPs and colleagues in one meeting about prosecutions of sub-postmasters wasn’t true
Vennells also says she wasn’t aware for several years that the Post Office was conducting its own prosecutions
She apologised at the beginning of her evidence and said her answers to questions “will be difficult to listen to”
It is the first time she has publicly spoken about her role in the scandal for nearly a decade – press play above to watch the session
Vennells was chief executive of the Post Office from 2012 to 2019, which included the last few years of the scandal
Between 1999 and 2015, more than 900 sub-postmasters were prosecuted because of the faulty Horizon system