This man is lying. His body language and attitude is appalling!! It’s difficult to find the words.

Anyone else got a problem with how he spent the entire time lounging in the chair like he resents the questioning and doesnt have any respect for the process

Those post office executives should be stripped off their pensions and jailed

The lady who is questioning has my profound respect. What a surgically exact talent.

To DELIBERATELY allow innocent people to go to prison is EVIL….these people should go to PRISON.

Supercilious, pompous and arrogant. You can see the thinly veiled contempt all over him. Disgraceful display.

This man was running the Post Office, earning more than I will ever, and claiming not to have clue what was going on. It doesn’t add up.

This should be less of a public enquiry and more of a criminal investigation! What a bunch of bloody, vile liars.

*What an appalling, arrogant, utterly deceitful man. He belongs behind bars!* 😠😡🤬

He is a barefaced liar, incompetent and disrespectful.

He has all the dispicable, deceitful, arrogant qualities to be a politician .

The clear anger in her eyes reflects how the public sees this case.

These despicable people need to be arrested and jailed.

Lie after lie after lie. All of these people who continue to lie about their involvement should themselves be facing criminal charges. WHY aren't they???

I hate how smug and relaxed he looks. I hope he gets sent to prison for the rest of his life.

The arrogance of this man is staggering.

He was the Managing Director and pretends he knew nothing about it. He’s a liar, or completely incompetent. If incompetent, why was he paid the huge bonuses. Me thinks it because he’s a liar 🤥

The way he was thrown back in the chair as if he was having a casual coffee with someone and not in front of an inquiry! shameful !

He stinks of guilt, his arrogance is mind boggling, you can see how angry this lady is.

His body language is flavourful of someone who knows he will never set foot in prison. Lets change that!

Take their gold plated pensions off them and send them to jail

They who were in charge should be in JAIL for the PAIN and SUFFERING they caused to POSTMASTERS and their family's !!😊😊

it should have been a massive red flag to senior management that suddenly they had hundreds of postmasters, law abiding, pillars of the community who suddenly turned into apparent thieves, group think on a massive scale and there only focus was on protecting the name of post office.

It will be intresting at the end of this inquiry to see how many do jail time, if no one is jailed we know government and institutions are CORRUPT, and we are now a Banana Republic.

David smith needs to go to jail immediately.

He’s not even good at lying 🤥. Arrogance personified

Post office should be ashamed of the management they selected to do their dirty work. Put them behind bars .

One thing that has jumped out to me since the names of all the top people at the Post Office have emerged is that all of them seem to have jumped from one top job to another since leaving. This seems to have become the way our establishment works. It's not whether people are any good at their job, it's what other senior positions the have held.

Arrogance and indifference personified.

Lying through his teeth.

She is absolutely furious!!! Controlling her anger so well!!!.

No shame. Arrogant. Obnoxious. A liar. A poor memory. No integrity or humility. But HE did alright. A great role model for our youth to aspire to.

This man should be in a prison cell today.

I was the boss and I didn't know anything. I was looking for something else in another office. Lying toerag

Lock him up ! 10 years should be justice for those Postmasters they falsely put on trial.

He would rather represent himself as a woefully incompetent CEO than acknowledge responsibility. Abject moral corruption. How do these people face themselves?

The questioner is clearly struggling to keep her temper under control. She oozes contempt for the witness

David Smith has so little respect for the process he doesn’t even sit up straight.

What bonuses and pay rises did these people get during this time? They should be stripped of all payments along with any entitlements, and made to repay all.

They really need to skip the fiasco of a inquiry and go straight to criminal proceedings to really hold individuals or the company to full account.

What an evil man What an evil organization British Post Office are There should be jail time for all these evil people

These disgusting people need to ge put on trial for lying and causibgvso much misery!

This is an absolute disgrace, an 8th month pregnant woman was jailed leaving her 10 year old son to fend for himself. These people should all get heavy sentences.

Well done Ms Flora Page. You show this guy for who he is.

I was only following orders - I know nothing - wasn't me guv. Liars, all of them. This needs to be heard in a criminal court, how can they sit there after destroying so many lives and not face the consequences? Come on rozzers, its time to step up and do your job, properly.

I sincerely hope that true justice will follow this enquiry, and that those responsible will face criminal charges and trial.

These people think they are untouchable. That's why they have contempt for the questions. Jail every executive manager and anyone else who is involved in this cover up.

Ordinary people would be thrown behind bars, but with our "protect the rich" system, theres more of a chance of him getting a peerage than a prison sentence.

An incompetent criminal is still a criminal.

The only thing that hits you directly in the face whilst looking at this irritating witness, is the blatant disregard he has for the inquiry. You can tell this from the lack of posture and slovenly position while giving his limited recall of the events he was fully involved with. It begs the question as to his competency in his senior position. He is as useless as a chocolate teapot, and that's the polite way in describing him.

The bottom line is that not only did managers know there was a real problem, there was total cynicism about the impact of this issue on the lives of INNOCENT people and their families. There need to be prosecutions and lengthy jail sentences where guilt is proven. At no time did board members talk to the accused, shadow them at work. No one WANTED TO KNOW.

Expecting despicable people to start telling the truth after decades of deceit, isn’t going to happen.

The body language here is very similar to many of the investigators who gave evidence earlier in the Inquiry. Speaks to a horrible corporate culture pervading all levels of management.

Arrogant senior management "don't challenge me" attitude, seen it many times over the years

Yet another case of deny, deny, deny and if that dos'nt work then its a case of - Nothing to do with me Guv ! I knew nothing about that. The total sum of what this man did'nt know would fill up a large book.

I know what would happen to me and all other working class people if we were to lie about our involvement in such a scandal and innocent people were jailed.

If I was pressing charges against hundreds of my own employees, resulting in many prison sentences and even suicides, I think I might have taken more than a passing interest in the process. So either he is lying about how little he knew, or he was heartlessly indifferent. Neither is a good look.

One law for the rich and one for the poor.These slimebags will get away with it scot free.

She asked him whether or not he knew about the bug at the time, he answered with "Yes" then a minute later says he wasn't informed of it at the time. I hope he's under oath and everything he says can be used against him at his trial.

My husband worked for Fujitsu but not on Horizon, and not in Bracknell. Long before it was renamed Horizon and was Pathway, it was known to be a crock of shit. Everyone knew.

Why are these people not in jail? They sent innocent people to jail, ruined their lives and livelihoods and these sociopaths were paid millions in bonuses and given honours.

As a person from a country outside the United Kingdom , New Zealand and having recently viewed the events on the television documentary, there is an event here in New Zealand in 1978 which had far reaching implication on corporate integrity, that was the 1978 Air disaster in which a DC-10 collided on Mt Erebus, Antarctica with the loss of all lives. The Company, Air New Zealand Ltd, blamed the flight crew for a navigational era but a Royal Commission report, now known as the Mahon Report squarely blamed Air New Zealand for making changes in the flight plan without informing the crew, and this led to the disaster. The famous words that even today resound from Justice Mohan’s report are, and would ring true to this Horizon cover up, and to quote “An orchestrated litany of lies” It’s such blatant lying and deception it’s almost unbelievable. It has ruined many lives and then the gawl of the then Post Office CEO receiving an honour is even more riling. She should be stripped of all human dignity for what she did.

these managers should not get away with their lies - justice must be seved!

If this man aswell as Vennells and some of the investigation team for the Post Office are not criminally charged and jailed after this enquiry then there can never be any justice for those falsely accused.

How are these scumbags not in prison?! 😡

Watching from NZ - With all the money personally paid by postmaster for supposed short-falls, surely that should be repaid to the individuals. Some people have obviously paid thousands of £; where did this money go.

All the senior manager in this case should be subject to lie detector tests, both to confirm the truth to answers of fact given and answers of "I dont know" given ..

He’s not sitting back in his chair because he’s being casual, it’s because he subconsciously wants to distance himself from the questions as far as possible. He’s definitely not telling the whole truth.

He completely nonchalant and distant from the atrocities he oversaw. No emotion, no care, no truth. He is a disgusting , cruel and complicit manager. I presume he took the same oath as the other evil staff...' I promise to tell the truth, and anything BUT the truth' I just hope they have a cell door open for this despicable thing too.

These people need to face criminal charges and do jail time! I have never seen anything so disgusting

Still NOT a single person in Management at the Post Office has gone to Jail.

his arrogance and mendacity is extraordinary.

So much BS from this man it's untrue. He is so completely insincere it's disgusting .... he's a××se covering. Put him on trial and then in jail.

Liar from beginning to end. He should be in jail first what he has done. Horrific human being. Shame on him and his soul.

The more I hear the more speechless I become - the whole thing beggars belief. Justice will prevail, hopefully we'll all still be around to see it...

Under oath and doesn't give 2 figs

Wow. You can very easily tell he is lying. He MUST be sent to jail and the key thrown away if there is any justice.

I cannot believe that his staff took it upon themselves to deceive not only the courts, the accused and their own boss. He must have approved and encouraged their actions. At best he was negligent. I cannot see how some of these PO staff have not already been arrested and charged?

"I don't know, I don't remember, I wasn't there". This is the best the Chief Exec of the PO can come up with. If this was truly the case, then what were they paying him for?

What's also been revealed is that the board is populated by members sitting on multiple other boards and that they obviously couldn't or wouldn't give this whole affair the scrutiny it needed

Look, no matter who is lying, or mislead, or ill informed, the common ground is lawyers orchastrated the prosecutions in the knowledge there were irregularities with the evidence, and it appears failed to advise their clients, or did they advise? All these witnesses so say claim they were advised by the PO teams. The casses were then taken to court by the legal teams, on behalf of the PO. YET, not one person, barrister, MP, or Minister has championed the lack of integrity and probity of the PO's legal team, twhom carried out the gross misrepresentations in court. Amazing how lawyers are exonerated from fault. How about we quiz the lawyers who advised the PO to prosecute their victimes? Ask were they ordered to carry out such gross injustice. Were they told to us the court as a tool to cover up horizon's faults. Or, are lawyers who intentionally mislead our courts, immune??

How do these inept and incompetent individuals get to be in these senior positions?! He was the managing director of this business, how can he say that he had no knowledge of what has to be the largest number of prosecutions in their history?

His excuse is a variation of the Schoolboy Defence :- " it wasn't me a big boy did it and ran away" What a pathetic liar.

He clearly thinks he is above everyone in the room.Get him in a prison cell.

I was going to use a lot of angry and indecent language but then I remembered how calm Mr Bates is and how he wouldn't want it. What a role model he is. I'm posting this instead.

I'm not aware , I didn't know , I can't recall, I don't remember, He remembered giving evidence against the post masters. What a despicable person.

You can tell he’s “shocked and appalled” by the tone of his voice, he’s just besides himself!

Lying trough his teeth to save his own skin when knowing full well that a innocent person went to prison. It's enough to make an atheist hope there is a higher place.

If obfuscation was a criminal offence the entire parade of Post Office 'witnesses' would already be behind bars.

The awful reality is that it may well take a private prosecution to make these vile contemptible liars face the justice they deserve. The problem is it appears the cover up and deceit is by almost as many people as those wrongly convicted. Fijitsu, The government, MPs, Prime ministers, the post office union as well as the various Post Office senior management teams. They all deserve to face the utmost judicial scrutiny for abhorrent behaviour

Shocking to watch and with a heart pounding. My worry is these appalling people Don't have a miserable life in jail !!

It seems the Post Office senior executive only turned up to collect their pay cheques. They are now denying knowledge, by implication someone else was. What was he doing for his pay cheque? The buck stops at the senior executive, regardless of whether he read it or not. It was his job to know.

This is as bad as it gets! Several of the "people" involved in this should be going to jail! I wonder what their own families and friends, if they've got any think of them?

One question that should have been put to this guy was "what do you know anything about". Every question he answers by denying he knew what was going on in the business he was meant to be in charge of.

I was not aware.... I did not know... Over and over again. Blatant lying.

You can see the contempt he has for this enquiry written all over his face.

And even now they can't tell the truth, everybody involved in this cover up needs to be jailed for a very long time.

People have to go to prison for this cover up, even the shareholders who received cash in this period of time, they should be paying money back!

Look at his posture he doesn't give a shit.

Why are these not going to jail the absolute gull of that man is appalling