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Post Office inquiry live: Ex-boss Paula Vennells sorry for suffering of sub-postmasters - BBC News Post Office inquiry live: Ex-boss Paula Vennells sorry for suffering of sub-postmasters - BBC News
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Vennells is asked over whether she could be criticised for seeing problems as being beyond her control as an "alibi", which she firmly denies. Inquiry counsel Jason Beer KC rattles through a list of sub-postmasters and postmistresses who had been acquitted after being accused of stealing money from the Post Office - all of whom had blamed Horizon for the accounting shortfalls.
She tells Beer that she took a very active role in managing the Post Office, laying out a series of different examples of her work - including that was sometimes seen as being "too curious and stepping into other people's territory". Why were you telling parliamentarians that every prosecution involving Horizon had been successful and found in favour of the Post Office? he asks.
Vennells breaks down in tears.
She says: "I fully accept now that the Post Office knew that, I completely accept it. Personally I didn't know it and I'm incredibly sorry it happened to those people and so many others."
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