What really is the point of the Post Office Inquiry when all we see paraded in front of us are a bunch of liars who are unwilling or unable to tell the truth. Not one of these former Post Office Officials has shown any willingness to take responsibility for this travesty of justice. All this ultimately demonstrates that there have been attempts to cover up the Scandal at a high senior level. It has been proven that the Horizon System could be remotely accessed by Fujitsu and that it was known about by Post Office Officials early on. This Inquiry has been too polite and has let these people make excuses of poor recollection to excuse and distance themselves from responsibility. These people should be being interviewed under caution by the police. Let’s just proceed to prosecution of these liars and deniers who are more concerned with trying to protect their reputations than getting to the truth and culpability.
Vennels and her associates brought the Post Office into disrepute
There is already significant evidence available for prosecutions so let’s get the police involved and proceed to prosecutions and stop this fiasco which is the Public Inquiry. How these people manage to sleep at night is beyond comprehension. Are we to believe that they just didn’t know what they were doing? Well that’s what they would like us to believe. It’s quite inconceivable to believe that they were as incompetent as they make themselves out to be and if they were then they should be made to refund all the money that they ever earned whilst working for the Post Office: because they were clearly not competent or skilled enough to hold such esteemed positions and were clearly not fit to do their jobs: well at least that is what they are claiming. It’s hard to believe that Lawyers and Managers don’t know how to read emails or just don’t understand the subjects to which they refer, or is the truth that they just conveniently forgot to avoid culpability? The whole Inquiry, although well meaning, is just a fiasco.
Vennells ran or oversaw a regime intent on protecting the Post Office Brand from the subsequent Scandal and that was why a decision was made to sack Second Sight as they were approaching the truth of the whole affair. Vennells holds ultimate responsibility and accountability since she was the CEO at the time. If she failed to get information then her team of officials are responsible for lying to her and hence perverting the course of justice. Vennells is claiming in the Inquiry on 23/05/24, that she basically wasn’t included in any executive decisions based on prosecutions which quite frankly is very hard to believe. Being that the impact of understanding that the result of such prosecutions being unsound, the implications would have been huge and must have been something that she was made aware of because ultimately she was accountable to Parliament. Therefore this was a matter that she would have been fully briefed on as the Chief Executive of the Post Office because the discovery of such information would have been and has since proved to be, catastrophic for the Post Office Brand.
Reading into Vennells’ statements to the Inquiry over the last 2 days it becomes obvious that she both took advice and actioned upon the advice from her Publicity Manager by attempting to hush up the matter and carry on regardless in order to protect the Brand and herself and her position at all costs and despite the impact that such a decision had on the lives of those that the Post Office prosecuted despite the knowledge that Horizon System had faults and that it could be accessed remotely without the consent of the Postmasters. Vennells’ main objective was and keep it out of the press and avoid the subsequent Scandal that has eventually caught up with her. Meanwhile the Post Office continued to prosecute innocent Postmasters and Postmistresses despite understanding that some if not all subsequent prosecutions might be unsound. So as much as Vennells liked to believe that she was doing a good job as CEO of the Post Office her decision, not to review previous cases brought to court by the Post Office spanning a 10 year period, was in effect a decision to conspire with her Publicity Officer to hush up the matter and do nothing act was a contributing factor to bring the Post Office into disrepute further down the line.
Why is Paula Vennells being accompanied into the Post Office Inquiry surrounded by Police Officers?
I am personally asking myself why Paula Vennells is being accompanied into and out of the Public Inquiry into the Post Office Scandal by a cordon of Police Officers? For one thing she is the disgraced CEO who presided over the Post Office during the worst travesty of justice ever witnessed in Britain. Her role in the cover-up needs to be fully understood. I am asking if these same Police Officers are intent on arresting Paula Vennells at the end of her appearance today (24/05/24) and taking her into custody for further questioning under caution: and if not why not? Please proceed to prosecuting these liars implicated in this travesty of justice. This Public Inquiry has failed to get to the truth.
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