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Simon Jack Thank you for reading our coverage today.
Business editor Today the inquiry heard that former Post Office boss Paula Vennells ignored calls from the organisation’s top management team to halt sub-postmaster prosecutions - you can read the full story here.
Susan Crichton finished her evidence this morning, before we heard from Chris Aujard. We will be back tomorrow reporting on the Post Office Inquiry.
Taken together with yesterday's session, her account painted a picture of an organisation where discussions were often unrecorded, and processes to make sure serious issues were communicated were inadequate. Angela van den Bogerd, former Post Office People Services Director and Programme Director for the Branch Support Programme, is due to give evidence.
Crichton admitted that as general counsel she should have made sure the key advice from Simon Clarke – that Fujitsu’s Gareth Jenkins evidence was flawed, and that the Post Office was at risk of failing to retain important documents – was seen by the board. This page has been edited by Emily McGarvey, Aoife Walsh, Nadia Ragozhina and Sophie Abdulla.
Crichton said she felt she was being frozen out and discredited in part, as Paula Vennells suggested, for placing her professional ethics above the interests of the business. It was written by Malu Cursino, Thomas Mackintosh, Ali Abbas Ahmadi and Emily Atkinson.
It has and will be put to many witnesses in this inquiry that they often did exactly the opposite.
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