Watch Again: Paula Vennells gives evidence at Post Office Horizon IT inquiry
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- Watch live as the former Post Office CEO testifies at the Horizon IT inquiry which is investigating why hundreds of subpostmasters were wrongfully convicted of fraud due to an IT fault.
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I have served under MDs with her level of incompetence. Ms Vennells earned £5.1m during her time at the helm of the Post Office! Whilst her victims had to sell their possessions to payback money they didn't owe. Will there be justice?
Probably not, unless there is a private prosecution, the establishment will no doubt rally round in the case they might be next.
She has to go to prison for what she done to the subpostmasters
🦉🐯 This ordained priest has a real aversion for telling the truth, her criminal and utterly heinous behaviour just continues on.
The death of the postmaster who committed suicide is soley on her hands. She should be ashamed and put in prison for all the lies and evil she has done. She just thinks she can lie her way out of it. Crocodile tears.
She speaks to the postmaster she is gods disciple
Now tears. HOW DARE SHE. She is crying for herself.
How the hell did she get the position of CEO? She was totally out of her depth to run such a big public company
Did she do anything at the Post Office other than forget things?
No!
She managed to make one decent cup of tea so I'm told!
Unbelievable how slippery and blatantly dishonest she is. Justice for the Postmasters who have gone through hell!! PV must be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
I really don't believe that she didn't hear any rumours about what was going on with so many subpostmasters. And if she had been a good CEO she would have done something with it. But she didn't.
She's STILL relying on people giving her wrong/incorrect/incompetent advice - 'Cry - it'll make you ĺook human !'
Promoted way beyond her abilities pure and simple.
Did not Earn It.
@@player9117 How on earth did she get into the Church?
Evidence is pointing at her deliberately blaming the postmasters but she is not putting her hands up..!!!
Who thinks she's lying? Anyone think the crying is as a result of not being amongst other evils? She's use to an environment where her expert skullduggery is celebrated
The British consecutive Governments are to blame for continuing in their joke. When will someone dare to agree with that here??
I don’t know if it is wilful malice or cruel incompetence but it runs through those post office executive and senior people like the lettering on a stick of Blackpool rock.
She did manage to give her correct name but after that.........
She absolutely knew that Horizon was faulty.
Therefore she knew that they were persecuting hundreds of innocent people,
Robbing them of their:
Businesses,
Life savings,
Financial stability,
Reputation, Dignity and normal Pride in themselves,
Abilty to ever be employed again,
Lifestyle,
Mental Health,
And for some, even drove them to suicide.
Who could survive such a destructive force, without being totally devastated, and ruined?
Her actions literally affected thousands of people, in a very destructive way.
And she knew the evidence that this was based on, was a lie, that she, herself, kept hidden.
And she insisted others kept hidden.
How is that not evil?
Such lies and corruption, nothing will happen to her. Crocodile tears, she is bent double laughing back in her large home, knowing she has no accountability, she is a robot to money.
Just out of interest, who is paying for PV legal representation?
Who do you think
Not the tax payer that's for sure, she wouldn't meet the legal aid threshold, its means tested....
Nobody told me guv. The naughty people kept me in the dark.
She has learnt many lessons and in future she will behave differently.
😂😂😂😂😂
Learnt anything..... I doubt it!
In my opinion it is a failure in general education, for an educated person to not be aware that ALL significant software systems have both known and unknown bugs in them, that can have major implications for operations.
She asked questions the wrong ones
"Im surrounded by drips" really got me by surprise there lol
When your in a hole Paula stop digging. Why can’t she just tell the truth? Sorry that’s non rhetorical. She bangs on about ‘I should have known’ over & over again. I bet she can tell you how much her yearly bonus was along with her final bonus. Money used for that was the postmaster’s confiscated money following prosecution by her hand. It’s time for her to face a trial, ordinary men & women died because of her actions, driven to the brink by self serving greedy senior personnel. The ‘little people’ didn’t matter. She could have cared less. The only time she uttered sorry was when she had been exposed as a devious scheming liar. Good luck with your trial madam, you will certainly need it.
She can waffle and try to distract and hope we forget the question! But it ain't working
Jail
The buck stops there. Lock her up.
What about Sunak and Starmer supporting war criminals. The news seems to have been taken over by this story conveniently?
I thought they had both denounced Hamas and it's vile actions.
She is not a great witness, and has a great deal of culpability for what happened. However, she was not the worst witness out of the post office witnesses. She was far from perfect, but others were much more defensive, evasive, and defiant, then she was. Personally, I don't know what she has to lose. She's already condemned in the eyes of the public. She should just admit the obvious, which is she was either wilfully blind, or incompetent, either way she was responsible.
DEI employee
Listened to a lot of this today i hope someone kept count the number of times she says i can't recollect or i can't quite remember except when its something that is helpful to herself when she has absolutely clear memories ..........an ordained minister migod she must be praying constantly
Pretty much the same as her colleagues who have spoken at the inquiry.
It's shocking that as a minister of the church, she just can't own up. By doing so, it would not be only a decent thing to do, but also a Christian act.
That line about a help desk being available 24/7 is a laugh. Sure, there was a help desk. And they were instructed to lie to the postmasters, to deflect, and to block the postmaster's concerns. The help desk was no help, on purpose.
Vennells is being dishonest when she represents the availability of the help desk as an example of PO management trying to help the postmasters.
But, of course, Vennells will lie, and say she knew nothing about it. Apparently, absolutely no one in PO management knew anything about it.
The helpdesk for software is almost always run by the producer of the software, and, therefore always try to put the software in the best possible light. But always know, the help desk people are aware of defects in a system, especially the higher level helpdesk personnel. It is essential to their proper functioning. And they listen to the complaints, and then someone at a higher level decide whether or not it is in the companies interest to fix a particular defect. And be aware that you are not entitled to a perfect system, but ARE entitled to a system that is "fit for the purpose"
This woman reminds me of the David Brent character from the UK Office. Minus any good nature or humour!
The Post Office were to blame for using the Horizon System.
Paragraph 597 were you working for the post office or were you maybe wrong
who better to offer their thoughts on questions of governance than paula vennells cbe-
Duping Delight
For Ms Vennells to put out an innocent apology is so nauseating. To play such a dumb CEO is
Obviously a big lie. If she didn’t get info from her staff, she had no use having such a high position. Also her lack of info is total BS. Who can she deceive now? People are aware of her evil.
If Horizon helpline is like BT….😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫
Comments like this would have been acceptable in the early 20th century, but certainly not today.
😢Is Vennells liable to "make good" all falsely obtained reimbursements from postmasters. Surely if it is good enough for the Indians, it's appropriate for the Chiefs. I'm sure the fat cat lawyers and implicated managers handling the PO Network, PR Comms, Legal Dept, Regional Managers, with a double portion from Ms Bogert, will all be too happy to contribute funds equivalent to the salaries earned by them since the conspiracy was birthed at the first notification that Horizon was flawed. Either that or 15 years at HM's holiday home Strangeways.
If a worker of any level, is negligent, they could be sued for negligence. And be liable for the damages, but otherwise, all workers are entitled to their wages.
How predictable, Paula Vennells entire evidence: "I didn't know nofink gov', not nofink!" Not a single jury in the country would believe her, but you can be sure this judge will. As someone who worked in bureaucracies for 30 years, they all have the same cultural pathologies. I could write a whole book on it. What we are seeing here is a textbook demonstration of "Plausible Deniability". Basically the tyrant (CEO) of the organisation makes it clear that in the event of being given any 'bad news' or any information they do not wish to hear, the messenger will be severely punished. Next tier managers quickly learn to not pass on anything the tyrant doesn't want to know (through any official or recorded channel). Every bureaucracy I have worked in has been the same a flow of mindless diktats flowing down the chain of command, and a total blockage of all information or feedback going up the chain of command. The tyrant rules in a bubble of splendid isolation, only emerging periodically to lecture the underlings about how great they are, how much improvement their personal genius has made, and how we are all not good enough to be working in his or her organisation. When things go really wrong, as in this case, we see the value to the CEO of such a policy.
Itv drama there fault
4 Women on the Board . No wonder this has been a mess !
Scandalous statement.
The Titanic was designed by men…put to sea by men..do l see a pattern here?
So slick…but not convicing
Moyà was quite right.
Stroud person found innocent Nicola Arch 2012.
She works for god as well don't lie doe's he exists