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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 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 inquiry is now shown the evidence on issues of complaints about bugs, errors and defects.
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. In her statement, Vennells says there were about 600-plus bugs and defects being corrected by Fujitsu without the Post Office's knowledge.
“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. When asked about where she got that number, she says that she thinks it was from the Horizon issues trial "but I can't remember".
Laughter can be hard in the inquiry room as Beer poses the question. "It's a recent understanding of the numbers, not that one I had at the time," she adds.
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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