They didn't fight for decades to see Paula Vennels say sorry. They fought for decades for justice.

Crocodile’s tears…you ruined 100s of honest hard working lives. Shame!

She has put up a much more intelligent performance throughout this enquiry than people realise. She might have appeared to be ignorant and dumb on many occasions but I sense that it is part of her deliberate strategy to distance herself from any potential criminal charges. Hence her evidence given often seems to be quite random and full of gaps concerning IT disclosure and sub postmasters. There is a pattern in her responses to the questions. Where they are related to IT bugs, her knowledge and awareness on convicted cases and legal advice surrounding sub postmasters, she deliberately made herself looking ignorant and blaming all the faults on other people. She knows that being incompetent is not a criminal act but by deliberately withholding evidence to interfere in the administration of justice (perverting the course of justice) and causing death (corporate manslaughter) are. So she did not admit once in the past 3 days that she might just know about the bug and the disclosure issue before 2013 - she is much cleverer and smarter than people think otherwise she could not be the CEO in the first place. Throughout the enquiry, she stubbornly stuck to her single line of defense which was 'she should have known but she did not know' (a famous phrase used by Albert Speer at Nuremberg trials in 1946 which got him off from the death penalty - he was known to be the one who got away! ) because her colleagues failed to keep her fully informed. You would also notice where questions are related to non Horizon and sub postmasters issues, she happily remembered everything and was able to give details down to individual names. I don't think given the amount of documentary and audio evidence, there is any doubt that she knew all along as MD and later CEO and she was doing everything and deploying every available resources to silence the noises from the sub postmasters. Regardless what she said, I think there is now sufficient evidence to charge her on perjury, perverting the course of justice, corporate manslaughter and obtaining money by deception as soon as the inquiry is over!

She should give back her £3 million bonus shame on her and all the others he was lying and put these poor innocent people into prison

She's plain evil.

Vennells did more than let the victims down; she was complicit in 400 people being wrongly convicted of serious crime. Can we demand her arrest for serious criminal activity.... perverting the course of justice for one....

She's only apologizing because she got caught for being a bad and lazy person.

A craven self serving account, love it. She is a self serving , self righteous individual , working hard to serve herself.

She is not in a cloud of denial, she is in a cloud of lying and it is now clear she needs to face criminal justice for her lies.

Basically she falsely accused innocent people, stole from those same people and cheerfully banked that money as a personal bonus… and she has the gall to cry for herself. Yes cry for herself and again blame others, while conveniently forgetting the pain, falsely imprisoned, the broken reputations, suicides and early deaths, of those who filled her personal bank account. And she’s only sorry for herself. It is she who ought to empty her bank accounts, give it back to the people she and the PO stole from; and she ought to spend a long time in jail. Serving the time she took from others. All this she knows… and yet she cried only for herself.

NO SYMPATHY FROM ME. SHE NEEDS TO LOSE HER HOME/THE 5 MILLION POUNDS PAID TO HER AND SERVE JAIL TIME. IT IS ONLY RIGHT BASED ON THE WAY SHE TREATED THE SUB POSTMASTERS.THEY DID NOT DESERVE IT.

Suicides Bankruptcies Marriage breakdown Mental and physical health Loss of homes Stigma ....

I love that Ms Hamilton is seated so calmly right in front of Paula - like a searing burn on her conscience

Laws in the UK need to be brought in to protect the public against these criminals and fraudsters acting in the UK corporate world! Accountability laws are what is needed to make the wrongdoers do the right thing in the future!

She should have to give back all her bonuses. And spend the rest of her life in jail.

She should be glad that a police escort was present.

I hope the image of Vennells being escorted away by Police is a portent of things to come. Imagine a person if the cloth - allegedly one of compassion - being so enabling of the most vindictive people. There's a nice warm place waiting for her - and here's a test for British justice. Will it be done? Will the privileged and elite face the level of just the nation is calling for?

She couldn't be any more disingenuous 😂 Oh my lord, contradiction after contradiction

Ah c'mon, there weren't that many tears. It was a performance. She will be protected by the CPS, her church and the ruling political class. She will never be held accountable for her actions regardless of the outcome of the enquiry. She had to 'endure' three days of forensic questioning; this is water off a ducks back to people like Vennells. She can relax now and go back to her church and wallow in all the money she 'earned' during her less than illustrious career. What has she lost? Just the ridiculous little trinket that she had to return? Not much in fact. That is a very small price to pay for her disgusting behaivour.

She loved the Post Office yet destroyed it along with many who loyally served it.

Why is she entitled to have been escorted into and out of the inquiry by five Police Officers for three days? She has certainly Swingled enough bonuses from the Subpostmasters to pay for her own security. Again, tax payers picking up the bill for the so-called entitled in our society, it makes me so annoyed that she gets this privilege. I really hope she ends up in a court of law and is sent down to spend a good few years to reflect on the harm she has done to these innocent people at the Kings Pleasure. That would be a very fitting end to this Wretched Woman.

The nice smiling lady has been staring at Vennells for 3 days solid. I only found out today who she was. She is awesome, bless her.

Denial is the traditional route for those desperate to avoid prison.

We've been watching this inquiry and after 3 days of watching PV's lies and putting blame on others, it becomes evident she is devoid of human feelings and compassion. Despicable creature this.

'I was more bored than outraged.' Wow.

Even now she can't connect to an ounce of genuine regret or shame.

SHE WALKED AWAY WITH £5.1.MILLION.😢😢😢😢😢

As Cliff on 'Faking It' tells us, if you cry genuinely it takes the voice a long time to recover. It took her 1 second, then she realised her mistake and went back to the whiny voice. SHE'S FAKING IT .......

She is right, she loved The Post Office, the institution, and that came first above the people who worked for it…..and at their expense…

This inquiry, for her is the prequel. She has her eye firmly fixed on the criminal trials to follow. She has decided that ignorance and incompetence is her best defence, and has had several years to prepare and practice it. Her response to the enquiry was 750 pages., which says alot. Her Legal council for key years has decided to stay in Australia 😁😁

The bottom line is paula vennells has and will always protect the post office brand ,backed by government MPs

On a day when Lucy Letby’s appeal was dismissed Paula Vennels was the most hated woman in the UK. Neither showed contrition or remorse for their actions and both deserve long prison sentences

As the boss of this 'legal mafia' she should be locked up straight away along with her fellow cohorts. If there is any justice then arrest warrants must follow very soon. If not, then this is further proof of a cover-up reaching the highest levels. I find it coincidental that a General Election has been called at this time just as the Public Enquiry has reached its concluding stages.

She flat out lied to parliament.

Mr Henry in his cross examination uncovered a possible little nugget of gold, so much so that Sir Wyn asked for those documents to be passed to him. Vennells admitted to have put pressure on the writers of the RM brochure concerning the IPO of the RM to remove any mention of the PO and Horizon problems. I wonder if the main task for Vennells was to be a safe pair of hands to steer the RM into privatisation. She would have been aware of all the problems as soon as she entered the PO in 2007, then there was the separation in 2012, and the IPO in 2013. This conspiracy to cover up the problems goes all the way up to Government and Whitehall. I wonder how much Moya Greene also knew, despite her texts to Vennells accusing her that she knew all along. It's all very grubby.

Why didn’t successive Governments see that something was very wrong? Any firm of Accountants could have soon determined that the Horizon system reconciliation was flawed.

All the sub postmasters were also sorry! But most of them were sent to prison regardless of pleas! Whiile Paulla and Co enjoyed sunny holidays off the proceed payments called Bonuses! Do not let out Justice system fail the victims they should be sent to prison for a minimum of 5 years!

She loved the Post Office over the staff, she put the organisations before people’s lives.

is she gonna go to prison if she's sorry

I find it so hard to believe that someone such as Paula Vennels as CEO of the Post Office Ltd has the audacity to say that she knew so little of what was going on about the Horizon scandal. I lived in Bethesda, North Wales up to 2014 before my wife and I moved to the East Midlands. Even I knew about the scandal long before I left North Wales as I lived not far from Gaerwen where the sub postmaster there was sent to jail. How can she be so shameful and lie on oath to deny knowledge of such things? I cannot recall, I was not told, I can’t recollect cos it was so long ago and on and on. Yet she could remember quite clearly as far back as 2010 when she was managing director of discrepancies in other staff members work. What a joke. She could remember absolutely everything which might incriminate others but “could not recall” anything where there was any chance of her incriminating herself. She lied on oath and should be sent to the Crown Court for this even. Another charge would be to have removed valuable information from the papers when Royal Mail was sold which any intended shareholder should have by law have known before buying. She lied and I can’t wait until the enquiry comes to an end to read their conclusions. It was outright disgusting the obstacles placed in the way of Alan Bates in his quest to find the truth. It took him years to get the information and Paula Vennels was determined to spend whatever it needed of public money to grind Mr Bates down no matter what the cost. She was effectively trying to bankrupt him out of the way. Jesus died on the cross. She should go the same way. To think she is on a shortlist as the next Bishop just shows the corruption within the church in which she is an ordained minister. HOW SHAMEFUL AND CORRUPT IS THAT ALONE? She should go to Jail for the collective amount of time she sent the innocent sub post masters to jail to serve. She should also be bankrupted as that she forced the sub postmasters to do. She even had the cheek and be so cruel against the innocent sub post masters whom she knew were wrongly convicted to make them pay the PO costs in each case. THIS PROVES BEYOND ALL DOUBT THAT SHE WAS HELL BENT ON PROVIDING THE MAXIMUM PROFIT POSSIBLE FOR THE SALE OF THE ROYAL MAIL AND MAKE HER LOOK GOOD WHICH IN TURN WOULD MEAN A GREATER BONUS.

In preparation for this three day event, Vennell's would have undertaken dozens of practice training cross examinations with her lawyers to iron out how to present herself and deflect the accusations during the inquiry. She knows that it's not working as she is constantly breaking down in tears, whilst we can see that she was either asleep at the wheel or she is lying about her time in charge of the Post Office! Either one, its obvious to see that her priority was always to look after herself, her reputation, her performance bonuses & pension top ups as she happily sat back and watched people lose their livelihoods whilst some of them lost their lives. She now needs to be investigated by the Police on criminal charges and if/ when she is found guilty ... she needs to be thrown into prison. Every penny that she has taken in bonuses must be paid back in full and with interest as she has fraudulently stolen them from the Post Office/ British Tax Payers!

At 2.11 she’s interrupted, turns her head quickly in anger and THEN remembers to get back into ‘damaged apology mode’. True colours showing for a second. Getting so much money as a bonus for destroying ordinary lives is a shame, but it’s just another day in Tory Britain where those lucky enough to get onto the gravy train just p{%s on the rest of us every day we can’t pay the rent or food bills.

Ten years in prison for her please.

She did not let them down, she threw them under the bus.

The justice system must be utterly corrupt if she is not imprisoned and everyone else responsible.

It would be interesting to count up how many times she says “I don’t recall”, “I don’t remember” and (her favourite) “I imagine…….”

And, just to think, she's also a vicar in the CofE.. The lawyer saying that she "preached compassion, but didn’t practice it" hit the nail on the head, vile person!!!

LIAR.

She should be made to pay heavy compensation to the victims.

Vennells has more protection than a certain royal…

A prime example of someone promoted way beyond their capabilities. Lousy at the job, good at the denials and excuses.

When your lies come to light and you cry for yourself.

Paula is still crying all the way to the bank

The judges won't put one of their own in jail, these people are VENAL.

Her shame is what makes her cry

She didnt "let anyone down" at all. She deliberately and knowingly participated in corruption of the most appalling kind. She and her equally corrupt colleagues MUST answer for their crimes in a court of law.

Horrible self serving woman of the cloth. I want to see her sit before a judge!

she does not remember sending woman out of the room but then said she felt bad about it how can you feel bad about doing it and say you dont remember doing it

Let's all start a public petition to make sure she faces criminal proceedings! Parliament must then enforce it, regardless of what the police do!!!

A cloud of denial? She should be in a prison.

Poor woman did her best. She tried really hard to te best of her abilities. But the tears just wouldn't come ...

The most hated person in the UK, and rightly so

I've never seen someone try so hard to gaslight victims of a criminal act.

Take her money from her - that is what matters the most to her. Take away her bonuses, her wages and any earnings during her time as an incompetent and harmful manager. Crocodile tears - her "lack of recognition of the power imbalance" as she puts it, amounted to suicides, jail time and lives ruined.

The information was brought *directly* to her by second sight but because it didn’t tell her what she wanted to hear, that horizon was working, but instead revealed that everything was true and horizon was at fault, she dismissed it. She *didn’t* ignore it, she dismissed it. This will be crucial at her criminal trial because to demonstrate mens rea (guilty mind, the knowledge of wrongdoing), being ignorant simply means that she didn’t know. Being dismissive means she did know and chose not to act.

In the case of martin Griffiths, a subpostmaster so hounded by the Post Office that he took his own life she has blood on her hands as surely as if she had thrown him in front of the bus herself. The whole incident, from start to finish is sickening and a complete affront to all norms of decency, honesty and respect.

Send her to prison.

She's sorry she got caught.

Has the mighty fallen ? No , People like her have powerful connections and those will fight every inch to protect and save her from Jail because she is one of Them, not so for the Post Office plebs .

She couldn’t tell the truth if her life depended on it. Lock her up & throw away the key. I would like to know what she did in her role as the CEO.

Who's responsible for giving this woman the job in the first place?

Amazing that all the directors and lawyers involved all suffer from selective amnesia only when evidence is found against them.

Take her money its the only thing these people Feel. Prison. Then Back to a millionaire lifestyle. She stole her money her money from hard working people.

At any point did anyone look at, IF these people they were accusing of “stealing funds” where the alleged “stolen money” went? Did they ever once wonder “If they stole all that money” they had bough houses or cars or went on expensive holidays? Because if they had they would have discovered that no one was benefitting from the money they were accused of having stolen. And how would hundreds of Postmasters have decided to fleece the Post Office? The notion that all these innocent people either decided on their own or get together to steal money from post offices across the country? Fact… they wouldn’t and didn’t. But it was easier to believe that than actually properly investigate the facts that these people had no reason to steal the money, showed no signs of having large amounts of money come magically into their hands… It was easier to threaten and bully innocent Post Masters into pleading guilty and prosecuting them and those who refused to admit guilt to something they didn’t do and believe incompetent Post Office employees and contractors who didn’t do their jobs that “there was no glitch” and to pocket the proceeds of the actual victims’ own money.

“Please don’t send me to jail I didn’t know I don’t remember”

"I'm deeply sorry that I have been caught out"

No sympathy, fullest of condolences to the victims, both present and departed.

Crocodile tears and insincere apologies aren’t enough, there needs to be an unprecedented and debilitating personal financial penalty and a substantial prison sentence that cannot be commuted and that is not subject to parole.

No prison for people like this is why we are in the mess that we are in today 😔

Why bother with this enquiry? just put her on trial.

Admitting that she loved the post office is the clincher,meaning she was prepared to do anything not to have her love damaged,

This woman has no scrupulous, ethics, humility and I dought even a reflection!

Paula vennels gave noting to the PO when you consider the damage the brand has suffered, she spent nearly a decade sitting on her hands "laying low" pocketing the bonuses, the pension, that final payday, while innocent people suffered under Horizon, and she couldn't be bothered to raise a finger "not intrested".. So now the organisation will have to pay millions in compensation "thru the Taxpayer" because of her greed and ignorance.. Let's hope the prison sentence for the pain, suffering and expense caused is considerable.

Just as the subpostmasters faced criminal charges so should the managment of the PO involved in the witchhunt of subpostmasters face criminal charges!

"..I have answered honestly...". God knows she's lying through her teeth.

Poor lass, she let people down without even knowing it. Bless.

Her and her board of the Post 0ffice should all be charged after this investigation.😡😡😡😡

send her to jail

ARE THEY STILL TAKING RESERVATIONS AT THE TOWER OF LONDON?

You'd think with all the money she "earned" that she could have seen a dentist.

CofE ... CEO ... CBE A country rotten to the core

The sheer lack of competence in running a national business like POL has been exemplified in the recent evidences given by POL's senior executives. How ever did they get their jobs.

The vicar despicable

They STILL owe Jo £36,000 that they STOLE from her to "put right the shortfall"! No wonder it looked like she had lasers coming out of her eyes. So not THAT sorry - eh Paula?

The first thing a new government should do is insist on criminal trials for the main players. Not just Vennells.

she loved the post office, says it all, put the post office before the lives of innocent people, shame on her

shocked that not one relative has "directly" taken action against her and taught her a very big lesson and not care one bit about what happens after

Hollow… I let these people down

Her fake crying reminds me of Kyle Rittenhouse TBH

“Waited years for this…” They waited decades. And her crocodile tears mean nothing. As my mother used to say “If you were sorry you wouldn’t have done it.” She’s only sorry that she got caught in her lies, deceptions, ignoring and hiding facts, and responsible for the conviction innocent people… for the deaths of some of them. I hope she gets jail time.