Former Post Office boss Paula Vennells has begun giving evidence at the Horizon inquiry.
The ex-CEO broke down in tears four times during her testimony.
Almost a thousand subpostmasters were wrongly prosecuted and many believe Ms Vennells was at the heart of an orchestrated cover-up.
But much of her defence today focused around shifting blame, and in her words, being too trusting.
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"I'm so sorry, well actually it doesn't matter" – while trying to explain why she was attempting to distance herself from what she did. ???
Paula's crocodile tears are an insult to the victims give her a razzie for worst actress she's fooling no one
PRISON
Systematic Evil: Paula Vennels
w i t c h. how she lives with herself I do not know. disgusting
Why isn’t she in jail for lying to parliament. We can start there and we’ll soon get more truth out of her after a 6 months in Klink
Glad these villainous people are being exposed. Mental health is used to gaslight people into believing it’s their own fault. They were going to smear the man to protect themselves. Awful
Behind bars. Where are the law squad. Why is she still free.
I bet the Lord is not Smiling down on you NOW!……BUT THE ONE BELOW IS!…and WAITING!!!
Crying because she was caught.
Absolutely sickening dishonesty, and incompetence redefined at a whole new level. Just sickening.
There is no more despicable person than Paula Vennells!
If she didn’t know then stop lying and made up answers in the parliament
Nice damaging message exchange at 3:22
The concern is, clearly, how the optics will look for the business
"We can't have driven him to suicide, there must have been other factors playing a part!"
Suspicious use of inverted commas regarding Mr Bates too – especially considering the context "He doesn't trust us. Who is closest to him?" … "It would be unfortunate if we LOST him"
No less than a lengthy prison sentence for her and a number of others all involved in this gross miscarriage of justice.
She can think herself lucky she didn't pull this stunt in Vietnam, or she, like another, would be facing the death penalty.
A crying shame we got rid of it if you asked me.
She either needs to be done for mass corruption or negligence, there's no way she should be able to walk away from this. She was the CEO.
Why isn't this lying, self serving sow rotting in jail?????
Paula Venables
Let her cry in prison. THIS IS TERRIBLE ….
YET THESE PEOPLE WALK FREE .
THIS IS AN AWFUL COUNTRY which plundered the world and has now turned on itself….. they ruled the empire with this moral compass ?.
Vennells is a delusional, arrogant, ignorant, egotistical narcissistic sociopath! How could she have been chosen to lead the Post Office???? By her words and actions Vennells is clearly a criminal! Hundreds of innocent lives were destroyed under her watch! People committed suicide because of her incompetence. People lost their homes…. Lost their families…. Lost their businesses…. She must go to jail!
Add text "PRISON" if you think she deserves time inside
Now to see how good an actress she is
Why was the Post Office officials allowed to employ private lawyers to fight their prosecution??? Why didn't the government ministers in charge of Post office, should only allow government appointed lawyer to the Post office. This why the Post Office went rogue in their business!!!!!!!!!!!!
Women!!! We want to be treated on equal status with men then we use tears to dampen our malfeasance for shame.
How absolutely disgusting it is to refer to the possibility of prior mental health issues that then can be exploited as a get-out. How sick these people are.
Shocking emails – no empathy for the poor postmasters who committed suicide.
When she's completely cornered and can't think of anyone to deflect responsibility on to, she turns on the waterworks.