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News story after story has detailed the amount former Post Office chief executive Paula Vennells knew and when. The work of the Horizon IT Inquiry has been said by Ms Vennells to be one of the reasons she does not comment on specific reports. Now that inquiry turns its attention to her.

Paula Vennells was chief executive of the Post Office between 1999 and 2015 and was CEO during part of the Horizon scandal, which saw more than 900 subpostmasters wrongly convicted

A general counsel annoyed by independent investigators and comms director that bragged about his contacts were part of a Post Office clique with former CEO Paula Vennells

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The shamed former Post Office boss was handed detailed case files for eight subpostmasters in 2013, including one who went to jail and that of Lee Castleton who was made bankrupt.

It was only in 2015, when the Post Office failed to stay true to its promise, that the Crown Office stopped prosecuting these cases.

The former chief executive and archbishop’s confidant appears at the Horizon IT inquiry this week to explain her role in the affair that wrecked the lives of so many of her staff

Post Office directors considered whether Computer Weekly could carry out an independent review of the investigation into its controversial Horizon system.

Former Post Office CIO Lesley Sewell failed to raise concern over Post Office’s false stance on Horizon integrity.

A campaigning former subpostmaster told Surrey Police he suspected a ‘possible criminal offence’ when he found details of a Post Office prosecutor withholding evidence in a 2010 trial.