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Post Office inquiry live: Ex-boss Paula Vennells gives second day of evidence - BBC News Post Office inquiry live: Ex-boss Paula Vennells gives second day of evidence - BBC News
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Her appearance may have arguably been overshadowed by yesterday's political news, but Paula Vennells' evidence on Wednesday was a major moment for the Post Office inquiry. We'll be going into the weeds of evidence today, but here's a reminder of how many people were convicted in the Post Office Horizon scandal.
She faced tough questions from the inquiry lawyers over what she knew about the Horizon scandal and faces more of the same today and tomorrow. There have been 983 UK-wide convictions, with 700 being Post Office prosecutions and 283 prosecutions brought by other groups, including the Crown Prosecution Service, since the Horizon System was installed in 1999, according to the Department for Business and Trade.
Here's a recap of some of the key bits of her evidence: So far just 95 have had their convictions overturned.
On sub-postmasters and mistresses A draft report uncovered by the BBC shows the Post Office spent £100m fighting the group in court despite knowing its defence was untrue. The Post Office said it would be "inappropriate" to comment.
She broke down in tears as a list of sub-postmasters and postmistresses who had been acquitted after being accused of stealing money from the Post Office was read out The Criminal Cases Review Commission said the scandal was "the most widespread miscarriage of justice" it had seen.
She said she wasn't kept informed about the number of complaints being received from sub-postmasters about Horizon The Post Office prosecutions include some in Scotland and Northern Ireland, where separate action will have to be taken to clear those affected.
She claimed she didn’t know the Post Office was prosecuting staff till 2012
On giving evidence to MPs
She admitted that an assertion she'd previously made to MPs that there had been no failed Horizon prosecutions was not correct
She said that she was too trusting of her colleagues, and that maybe those who prepared her notes for the 2015 select committee hearing “were trying to direct [her] to answer in a certain way”
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