Will Paula Venells ever be held accountable?
Today PO sub postmasters appeals against conviction in the PO Horizon debacle will be announced.
This disgraceful affair which resulted in hundreds of PO postmasters being imprisoned and or fined (I think there may also have ben suicides) as a result of software issues in a new IT system that was rolled out in the PO plus thhe appalling behaviour of the PO "police".
The CEO at the time was Pauls Vennells who, up to this point has managed to wriggle out of accepting any responsibility.
I wonder if, or when, there will be any accoountability for this affair.
Will Paula Venells ever be held accountable?
I was aware of this story, ex-sub postmasters regularly appeared on BBC R4 Today to state their cases. What they described as the issue and the rough treatment they received seemed odd. I assumed the cases were sporadic. What absolutely floored me this week and hadn’t sunk in was the sheer magnitude. I think it was something like 700 to 900 prosecutions and as others have pointed out suicide, imprisonments, destitution.
How did this not register as something going wrong? 700 postmasters can’t have suddenly become criminals. I can only conclude orchestrated maleficence by the Post Office and HMG.
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