May 23, 2024
Vennells told not to make Post Office front page news
Paula Vennells, the former Post Office boss, had suggested in 2013 that convictions going back 10 years could be scrutinised. In an email revealed at the inquiry into the Horizon IT scandal on Thursday, ex-Post Office media chief, Mark Davies, told Ms Vennells that it would "Fuel the story and turn it into something bigger than it is". Ms Vennells admitted on Wednesday that she did not know until 2012 that it was the Post Office and not external bodies that were prosecuting sub-postmasters. Ms Vennells said that Mr Davies was trying to "Minimise misinterpretation and exaggeration in the media" due to the Post Office thinking at the time that there had only been a small number of possible problems with convictions. Mr Beer said the idea of not looking back at past convictions because it could generate front page news was "a grossly improper perspective", to which Ms Vennells replied: "Yes, it is."
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