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Emma Simpson
Business correspondent Former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells arrived at Aldwych House this morning to a swarm of photographers and press.
When did she know accounts could be accessed remotely? Watch the moment she arrived at the inquiry in the clip above.
The Post Office always claimed sub-postmasters' branch accounts could not be remotely accessed without their knowledge. Once it became known that Fujitsu, the company responsible for the Horizon system, was able to do this, it undermined every prosecution case and civil claim the Post Office had brought.
Did she lie to Parliament in 2015?
Paula Vennells went on to tell MPs on the business select committee in 2015 that she had seen no evidence of any miscarriages of justice. But two years earlier barrister Simon Clarke warned the Post Office there were problems with past prosecutions. He said this was because they’d relied on evidence from Gareth Jenkins, the Fujitsu IT engineer who failed to disclose to the courts that he knew about bugs in the system.
Was anyone pulling her strings?
There’s one key bit of context to all this. The Post Office is owned by the government, which has a representative on its board. There’s an awful lot we don’t know about what went on between ministers, top civil servants and the decision making during her leadership, a crucial phase when the alleged cover-up was in full swing.
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