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Post Office latest: Paula Vennells wanted Post Office prosecutions to continue - lawyer - BBC News Post Office latest: Paula Vennells wanted Post Office prosecutions to continue - lawyer - BBC News
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Earlier this afternoon Chris Aujard was asked about the Post Office's power to bring its own prosecutions. Peter Ruddick
Aujard, previously a lawyer at the company, says former boss Paula Vennells "interjected" into executive committee discussions, wanting "some" prosecutions. Business reporter
Watch this clip below to hear his comments. Chris Aujard was talking about the mediation scheme which opened in 2013.
This scheme was to be run by Second Sight. And the forensic accountants were to focus on this, not any final report on the Horizon IT system as a whole.
If a complaint to the mediation scheme involved Horizon, then the onus was put on the sub-postmaster to prove a technical defect.
Why? Well because the interim version of the Second Sight report suggested there were no "systemic errors".
The problem? That report was only interim! And Second Sight were being prevented from completing a final report by...the mediation scheme!
As we have heard, this all became academic anyway when the scheme was closed down. Partly because of a fear over how much it would all cost.
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