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Post Office latest: Inquiry hears executives changed language on Horizon 'bugs' - BBC News Post Office latest: Inquiry hears executives changed language on Horizon 'bugs' - BBC News
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Zoe Conway The Post Office inquiry has adjourned for the day and we're about to pause our live coverage.
Employment correspondent, reporting from the inquiry But before we go here's a recap of some key moments from today:
In today's session the counsel to the Inquiry, Julian Blake, said a picture is being Giving evidence today was Susan Crichton - the former head lawyer at the Post Office before she resigned in 2013
painted of "cover-up’" at the top of the Post Office over problems with the She apologised to sub-postmasters and their families for their "suffering" and said she wished the scandal had been "resolved more quickly". Crichton said she hopes it "never happens again"
Horizon issue. The inquiry heard ex-Post Office boss Paula Vennells said in an email that she did not want to use the word "bugs" when referencing Horizon errors, something counsel to the inquiry Julian Blake called "absolutely Orwellian"
He showed the inquiry an Crichton agreed with Blake's suggestion that changing language demonstrated "an element of smoke and mirrors"
email written by the then Chief Executive, Paula Vennells, in preparation for a She also described herself as being mentally "in a bad place" at the time as a result of the scandal and was shocked at not being invited to a board meeting
Post Office board meeting in the summer of 2013. The Post Office inquiry will be continuing tomorrow from 09:45 BST.
It concerns how the board is We'll bring you the latest lines as Susan Crichton is asked further questions about the handling of Horizon IT problems.
going to be briefed on plans to set up a mediation scheme. Today's page was written by Ian Aikman, Seher Asaf, Andre Rhoden-Paul, Thomas Mackintosh and Imogen James. It was edited by Malu Cursino, Emily Atkinson, Jack Burgess and James Harness.
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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