A former subpostmaster has said he wishes Paula Vennells would have recognised a decade ago that what happened to him and his Post Office colleagues was 'unforgivable'.
Lee Castleton was found to have a £25,000 shortfall at his branch in 2004 and was made bankrupt after he lost his legal battle with the Post Office. Ms Vennells, former Post Office chief executive, admitted that the business' treatment of the East Yorkshire subpostmaster was 'unforgivable', on her third day of her evidence to the Horizon IT inquiry.
' On Friday, Edward Henry KC, a lawyer representing a number of subpostmasters at the Horizon IT inquiry, asked Ms Vennells: 'You preach compassion, you don't practice it. For example, with Mr Castleton he was even closed out of the mediation process and you know why that was, don't you?' The former Post Office chief executive, who is also an ordained Anglican priest in the Church of England, replied: 'I'm sorry, I cannot recall the detail of that.
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