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Post Office inquiry live: Paula Vennells denies shielding board from 'dirty laundry' - BBC News | Post Office inquiry live: Paula Vennells denies shielding board from 'dirty laundry' - BBC News |
(32 minutes later) | |
Sam Hancock | |
Reporting from the inquiry | |
Whenever Alan Bates' name is mentioned in the inquiry room - particularly when it involves letters or emails he's sent - people's ears prick up. | |
Shortly before the inquiry closed up, we were shown an email from 2012 that Bates sent to George Thomson, former head of the National Federation of Sub-Postmasters union, about the upcoming Second Sight investigation into issues with Horizon. It's here: | |
We've also been shown that the email was then forwarded by Thomson to the Post Office's Nick Beal - with Vennells lopped in - calling Bates' words "rubbish". | |
"I will tell him Horizon is secure and robust and to go away," Thomson adds in his forwarding of the email to Beal. I note some low-level gasps in the room. | |
In the midst of giving her thoughts on the email to the inquiry, Beer suggests it's in fact Thomson's email that's "rubbish". | |
Amid laughs and scoffs from the audience, Vennells says that, with hindsight, she agrees. | |
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