The Post Office’s former boss Paula Vennells has told the final day of an inquiry into the Horizon IT scandal that her senior team failed to inform her of key information, but said “she has no desire to point the finger at others”. In a closing statement, Ms Vennells’ lawyer named a number of ex-colleagues who she claimed did not tell her about pertinent facts linked to the scandal. Sub-postmasters at the inquiry greeted Ms Vennells’ words with groans and, when the former Anglican priest said she did not want to blame others, with laughter. More than 900 sub-postmasters were prosecuted for shortfalls in their accounts caused by bugs in the Horizon IT system. The government has said it would pay compensation to sub-postmasters who suffered losses due to shortfalls in the Post Office IT system prior to Horizon, which was called Capture. Meanwhile, the government asked the Post Office to “urgently review its files” so criminal cases review bodies can “ensure no one was wrongfully convicted of a Horizon-style injustice”.
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