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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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Jason Beer KC has turned to examining Vennells' professional background and knowledge of how the Post Office operated. Beer presses Vennells further on her claims that she wasn’t aware of the dozens of private prosecutions while she was in charge of the Post Office.
The lead counsel to the inquiry asks if it is correct she had no previous experience of managing both a large IT team and an organisation which prosecuted its own staff - Vennells says this is correct. Vennells says she personally spoke to John Scott, the Post Office’s former head of security, after the feedback from Second Sight and the mediation scheme.
The barrister then moves on to discussing several references to the importance of protecting public money, asking if Vennells was preoccupied with this concept? “When you spoke to John Scott about this, did you say John, I’ve been in the organisation for five or six years, I didn’t know you had a team of 100 people that were investigating up and down the country sub-postmasters and sending them to prison. How come I didn’t know?” Beer asks.
The former Post Office CEO says she was not preoccupied with, but adds that when she joined the Royal Mail in 2007 she was surprised about how much attention was paid to a document called "managing public money". Laughter can be hard in the inquiry room as Beer poses the question.
"Of course it's because it was important, because all public organisations are funded through public money," Vennells tells Beer. She says she spoke to him seriously about the culture at the Post Office and that the sub-postmasters were really important to us.
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