Five questions for ex-Post Office boss Paula Vennells

The former boss of the Post Office, Paula Vennells, is giving evidence on Wednesday at the public inquiry into the Horizon IT scandal. The Post Office always claimed sub-postmasters' branch accounts could not be remotely accessed without their knowledge. Nick Wallis, author of the Great Post Office Scandal, believes Ms Vennells didn't want to be given bad information. Ms Vennells was in charge when the Post Office decided to defend the action, going on to spend £100m fighting the group in court despite knowing its defence was untrue, a draft report uncovered by the BBC showed. Ms Vennells left the Post Office just before the damning judgement came through.

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