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Post Office inquiry live: Ex-boss Paula Vennells cries and admits evidence to MPs wasn't true - BBC News Post Office inquiry live: Ex-boss Paula Vennells cries and admits evidence to MPs wasn't true - BBC News
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Beer asks Vennells if she repeatedly received letters from sub-postmasters and people on behalf of sub-postmasters raising complaints or concerns about Horizon. The inquiry returns from a brief break to look at a briefing document compiled for the Post Office board by consulting firm Deloittle looking into the Horizon
"Yes, I would," replies Vennells. Jason Beer KC highlights section of the report which explicitly states their work on behalf of the Post Office should not be considered a full audit, as they had not tested Horizon themselves.
"Did you see a pattern between them?" he asks. He also brings up the "limitations" under which Deloitte produced the report, which stresses the firm had "not validated" whether Horizon worked as described in Post Office documents give to them.
"I saw the theme of Horizon coming up, yes," she replies. Vennells agrees to the barristers assertion this was a "significant limitation" to the briefing.
Beer presses she did anything to join the dots between them. She says that evidence showed "fix upon fix had been applied" to Horizon and "documentation had not been kept", so Deolitte discovered it was going to be difficult to find the paperwork that confirmed it.
Vennells says the dots were being joined in the investigative work in the complaints and mediation scheme, adding that she believes each case was looked at in detail.
She says that she regrets that none of the issues were exposed in those investigations.
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