'I'm very, very sorry,' the former Post Office boss said in a tearful appearance at the inquiry
Paula Vennells using a tissue to wipe her eyes while becoming tearful giving evidence at Aldwych House, central London She claimed that she was “too trusting” and had not been told key information about the Horizon system. She also said that she only learned that the Post Office carried out its own prosecutions in 2012 – when she became CEO – despite having joined the organisation in 2007.
Dame Moya says: “I don’t know what to say. I think you knew.” Ms Vennells replies: “No Moya, that isn’t the case.”After being shown the text messages, Mr Beer asked: “Moya Greene accuses you of knowing. What did you understand this to be?” Later that day, Ms Vennells told former Post Office general counsel Susan Crichton: “If it is an attempted suicide, as we sadly know, there are usually several contributory factors”.
Ms Vennells denied that she was trying to “get on the front foot” and “counter the narrative” that Mr Griffiths had died by suicide because the Post Office had ruined his life.Ms Vennells claimed that she did not know that the Post Office carried out criminal investigations into its own staff until 2012.
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