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Crichton is asked about when she gave up her HR role. Zoe Conway
She says it was "absolutely the right thing to do" and that HR "in addition made that job very difficult to do". Employment correspondent, reporting from the inquiry
And when asked on her general reflections of the note we have been reporting on, Crichton says she finds it "quite shocking" and "distressing", and that "I must have been in a really bad state". In today's session the counsel to the Inquiry, Julian Blake, said a picture is being
She says Paula Vennells should have put her on a month's sick leave. painted of "cover-up’" at the top of the Post Office over problems with the
Horizon issue.
He showed the inquiry an
email written by the then Chief Executive, Paula Vennells, in preparation for a
Post Office board meeting in the summer of 2013.
It concerns how the board is
going to be briefed on plans to set up a mediation scheme.
The scheme, which
would be set up later that year, was to give sub-postmasters an avenue to voice
their concerns with the Post Office.
Paula Vennells says that a memo written to
brief the board members on the scheme should not mention compensation. She
writes the hope is to ‘avoid or minimise compensation’.
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