Disgraced ex-Post Office boss Paula Vennells is set to be questioned under oath on Wednesday about her role in the Horizon scandal which unfolded under her watch. Ms Vennells, who was chief executive at the company from 2012 to 2019, will give evidence over the course of three days at the Horizon IT inquiry. The […]
A former top Post Office executive has denied claims of “bullying” and “intimidating” behaviour towards a wrongly convicted subpostmistress. Angela van den Bogerd also told the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry in central London that issues raised by colleagues relating to the Horizon IT system were “outside my knowledge scope”. On her second day of […]
A former Post Office manager has denied likening Horizon system developers Fujitsu to a “man who had just shoved 15 inches of bayonet up my posterior”. Ex-chief operating officer David Miller was quoted in a September 2010 PowerPoint presentation which also said leaders of the organisation felt they had been “shafted” by the UK government […]
A former chairman of the UK Post Office said he “didn’t do anything” to check the organisation’s employees were being properly prosecuted. Sir Michael Hodgkinson told the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry he is “very, very sorry for the misery” that was caused to subpostmasters during the Horizon scandal, but claimed he had tried to […]