The former chief of the Post Office during the subpostmasters scandal has confirmed she is willing to appear as a witness in the inquiry into the UK s biggest miscarriage of justice.
Paula Vennells, who ran the Post Office between 2012 and 2019, said she welcomed the move to give the inquiry statutory powers to compel witnesses to appear or risk jail for non-attendance.
She said in a statement: It is beyond doubt there are serious and unanswered questions as to the manner in which subpostmasters were wrongly prosecuted. All those involved in any way have a duty to those subpostmasters and their families, who were innocent victims, to ensure that this can never happen again.
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Paula Vennells sounds as though she has some of the qualities and values of a good sub-postmaster. You can t just focus on the commercial side by itself, it s about community too, Vennells told the Daily Telegraph in 2013.
By that point, rather than running a small branch office of the UK government-owned Post Office, she was a year into her seven-year tenure as its chief executive after a glass-ceiling-shattering career in retail and marketing.
THE MP for Ynys Môn has named in Parliament two innocent Anglesey postmasters who were victims of a large-scale miscarriage of justice involving a faulty IT system. Virginia Crosbie said it was important that Margery Lorraine Williams and Noel Thomas were mentioned in the House of Commons as being innocent of any crime after their convictions were quashed by the Court of Appeal last week. A total of 39 postmasters had their fraud and theft convictions overturned by the court after they were wrongly convicted due to the IT system installed by the Post Office called Horizon. The UK Government has launched an inquiry into what went wrong. It is thought more than 700 postmasters were wrongly convicted of offences between 2000 and 2014.