Ex-Post Office boss Paula Vennells hands back her CBE after ITV drama grips the nation
POST Office boss Paula Vennells was told of problems with the Horizon system two years before she told MPs there was no issue, secret audio recordings revealed last night.Paula Vennells was told of problems with the Horizon system two years before she told MPs there was no issuewas denying. And she was also told her company’s denials of faults with the system was “dangerous” and “stupid”.between 1999 and 2015.
Ms Vennells, who returned her CBE in February, has not commented on the recording being released. POST Office boss Paula Vennells was told of problems with the Horizon system two years before she told MPs there was no issue, secret audio recordings revealed last night.They told her of claims sub-postmasters’ branch accounts could be accessed remotely — something the Post Office was denying. And she was also told her company’s denials of faults with the system was “dangerous” and “stupid”.
Post Office boss Paula Vennells is formally stripped of her CBE by the King for ‘bringing honours system into disrepute’ Hundreds were wrongly convicted of fraud and other offences between 1999 and 2015. It later emerged staff at Fujitsu, which built the IT system, were able to access the accounts remotely and were fixing bugs caused by the faulty programme.
The recording appears to show Ms Vennells was told that Fujitsu staff could do this. Yet two years later in 2015 she told MPs it was “not possible” to be remotely accessed.
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