Paula Vennells is at the inquiry again today for her final day of questioning. Yesterday she repeatedly said she 'could not recall details' from during her tenure as head of the Post Office, which wrongfully prosecuted hundreds of sub-postmasters. Watch her questioning live below.
Questions now turn to whether Royal Mail's flotation may have led bosses to avoid reopening prosecutions of sub-postmasters. In June 2011, a roadmap was set out for the privatisation. And in September that year, Paula Vennells received an email from Royal Mail Group chair Donald Brydon 'expressing concerns' about how to deal with complaints from sub-postmasters.
Edward Henry KC says it appeared Mr Brydon was 'worried this might disrupt the big plan to privatise Royal Mail Group'. 'If it were to be established that the Royal Mail Group had wrongly prosecuted dozens, hundreds of sub-postmasters who might have sued them, it would have threatened to disrupt the flotation in October 2013, wouldn't it?' asks Mr Henry. 'I'm sure that would have been the case,' replies Ms Vennells.
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