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Paula Vennells denies shielding board from 'dirty laundry' - BBC News | |
(32 minutes later) | |
Sam Hancock | |
Reporting from the inquiry | |
It may have started slowly but by the end, day two of Paula Vennells' evidence to the inquiry revealed an awful lot. | |
Emails showed the former Post Office CEO suggested all the way back in 2013 that sub-postmaster convictions going back 10 years could be scrutinised - but on the advice of her media chief, they weren't. | |
In the room today, she acknowledged that was the wrong call. | |
We also heard about a Post Office board meeting in 2013, where minutes showed that executives had grown "concerned that the review opened the business up to claims of wrongful prosecution". | |
Vennells' insistence that she couldn't recall that being discussed in the meeting was met with loud groans and even laughter from those watching on - not an uncommon occurrence over the past two days. | |
Compensation was the last theme of the day to be explored. A document from February 2014, which said Vennells felt sums calculated by Second Sight - up to £50m - were "a long way from the figures... in mind when the scheme was established". | |
She insisted it wasn't the case that the Post Office didn't want to pay out, and ignored scoffs from onlookers as she did so. | |
We'll be back tomorrow for Vennells' third and final day of evidence-giving. | |
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