She is crying for herself, I hope she doesn't retire on an enormous pension. she deserves to go to jail. xx

Everyone that was involved in the scandal, should go to jail

Vennells was protecting POL at all cost and not worrying, at any point, about whether postmasters went to prison wrongly. That’s unforgivable.

Postmasters were bankrupted and put in jail. Bankrupt this woman and put her in jail.

Shes got too go too JAIL for what shes done END OFF

If she didn't know how is her millions of pounds in salary , bonuses and pension justified....As a CEO there is no one above her

Outrageous & disgustingly disgraceful...

No one believes her, and all honest, decent people think she should go to jail. But, knowing British "justice" I won't hold my breath on this happening.

With the law of malfeasance you are guilty if you know, and you are just as guilty if you claim you don’t know but you really should know, you are just as guilty. This is NOT A DEFENCE. SHE MUST GO TO. JAIL . BONUSES MUST BE TAKEN BACK,. SHE RUINED HUNDREDS OF LIVES

Oh look.... someone wealthy with influence is going to get away with wrongdoing... can you imagine my surprise? 🤨

She deserves everything she gets. Pity she won't be prosecuted as well.

She needs to go to jail for several years at least, she is an utter disgrace. And those crocodile tears were hilarious. JAIL !!

She either lies or was incompetent.Either way she is guilty and should be punished.

Give her 30 years behind bars.

The stance she is taking (choosing the lesser of 2 evils) is to look stupid and incompetent rather than admit guilt. Either way, Paula Vennells' life is over and will go down in the history books as guilty.

She was paid £5 Million to know what was going on and to be on top of it!

If she was that upset she would have donated her wages to the victims.

She is a disgrace , she can’t even answer a question straight away. Why ruined people’s lives

PAULA SHOULD GO TOO PRISION !!!

Incompetent or corrupt, which one? Maybe both. Either way she took money under false pretences. Thats fraud. 10 years...

She knowingly allowed innocent people to go to jail, many lives, reputations, destroyed and worse

She is sorry alright .. Sorry she got caught ... Crocodile.tears from a cold blooded heartless person who is shirking the blame and covering her own backside before wanting to see justice, and truth to be upheld and take responsibility for this awful and tragic situation that she was very much the cause of and knew about .

All involved right up to David Cameron will be rewarded for these very serious crimes !!!

Several should be in prison. Vennells, Crozier, van Der Bogerd etc.

the very definition of "Implausible Deniability"

She said at one point yesterday she was too trusting. Bollocks . The only people she trusted were those whose opinions toed her line of thought. She must think everyone at the inquiry blind and totally inept.

If she did know ( Which I believe she did ) then she should go to JAIL! if she didn't know She is the Most incompetent CEO in Britain & Should never had Got the Job in the first place & She should Still go to Jail Because the Buck stops with HER !

Plus is there a investigation into who was typing these figures into the postmasters computers from the basement of Fujitsu ???????!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't think she deserves an Oscar, it isn't a credible performance. Obfuscation, delay and philibuster.

She has no proof that she claims she pushed back and questioned no proof what so ever. But plenty of her involvement including secret phone calls. She is crying because she is going to jail. Who signed off the £100 million pound spend on lawyers.

Too posh for prison. Forfeit pension.

Crocodile tears 😭 She should be in handcuffs 💯

Sorry for being found out

I don't think she was faking. She's clearly under stress. She knows she messed up and she understands what the consequences could potentially be. She is scared though, and she should be.

Send her the prison

She says the post office knew, she didn't... She Was the post office! The head. In charge. Big oeuf, grande fromage.. ... She was the head. Take the money, take the fall

Prison Prison Prison

I’d give her a prison sentence along with a few more if possible I will avoid using the post office ever again

The woman is a liar

I did not like all the blame shifting she was implying

Vennells took charge of the Post Office in 2011 so from then on she has been responsible irrespective if she claimed not to know. She was being given daily updates on the cases they were taking to court for the alleged fraud due to the Horizon computer system! The Post Office were acting as Judge and jury as well as prosecution in all these cases and they refused to look into the possibility the system was at fault! All those involved must be charged for their part in this horrific miscarriage of justice and have to give some recompense personally to the victims who have had their lives ruined.

They all knew and like all good criminal conspiritees, they blame each other to make it very hard to prosecute.

Justifying an obscene salary: "I'm paid for the immense responsibility I have! The buck stops here!" Testifying over mismanagement: "It wasn't me, it was those under me. I wasn't responsible!"

She is either truly incompetent. Or lying I suspect lying. Conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.

How on earth can the chief executive be ‘too curious’. Who is she kidding? Her multi thousand pound job was to be too curious!

I love that. A £5000 suit absolutely ruined. Great one .

So Ben Harris - Quinney thinks she should just say "I`m sorry " and then step down and withdraw from public life . I`m pretty sure that is not what must of us think. She should be facing criminal prosecution and doing jail time. It is not good enough that CEO`s are above the law and face no consequences for their illegal actions. Get the Water C0. chiefs next.

Like scooby doo I’m half expecting someone to rip off her rubber mask and find out she is actually old man Sanderson from down the boat yard , he would have got away with it but for those meddling sub post masters !

Keir Starmer says he wasn't aware of the three Horizon cases brought against sub-postmasters by the Crown Prosecution Service when he led it. The Labour leader was director of public prosecutions from 2008 to 2013

There has to be on the ballot paper the option of "NONE OF THE ABOVE" so we the SOVEREIGN PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY CAN HAVE OUR SAY!!!

Time the police paid her a visit

“I’m sorry.. and step down”! I’m sure the sub post masters would think that was somewhat lacking in justice!

She was the CEO of a complete and utter bunch of incompetent and indifferent amateur bullies on huge salaries!! They should all be made to repay their salaries back as well as jail time for the handful at the top!. Might help their willfull amnesia disappear too contemplating in a jail cell!!

Remember that it doesn't just stop with the Post Office and the Blood Service. This is a problem with all government quangos that have the power to prosecute. For example, NHS Dental operates a computer complaints scheme that is corrupt and designed to force people to repay the cost of free dental care. Even the Architects Registration Board is regularly destroying the reputations and livelihoods of architects by striking them off because a complaint against them might be 'perceived' as wrongdoing. We need a full investigation of all these organisations.

She knew all along. She is being extremely dishonest, saying she can’t recall, I may have said and suchlike. She had no concern for the lives and families ruined, some died. She’s STILL defending HERSELF after this. I agree, I feel she knew what was happening. Then she leaves and becomes a church minister! There is something DEEPLY WRONG with someone like that. There is one word for it. She was the person at the top, she was responsible for her actions. She needs to be honest and take responsibility of her wrong doings and deception.She is not doing this. People like this at the top of large public organisations must surely be the start of something rotten and undemocratic. I’m hoping lots of the Big Noises here and there realise this and do what’s required..do what is needed to nip this behaviour in the bud to discourage other wrong ‘uns

Lord Arbuthnot championed the sub postmasters and took their fight on, Sir Ed Davey ignored their plight and did Nothing to help them because there was nothing in it for him.

Oh she might be upset but its not for the sake of the people, its cried cos shes been collard

I think we've all had a bellyful of straw unqualified CEOs such as Vennells and unethical boardrooms such as that at Fujitsu UK.

Either incompetence or negligence. Either way it needs to be custodial.

Going to an inquiry for 3 days and having a bad reputation isn’t a punishment.

They were quick enough to send innocent people to jail now lets send the guilt ones like paula susan

If this monster goes to trial, (as I see it from the other side of the Atlantic,) could British Justice find 12 independent jurors?

Crocodile tears....

Wasn’t she stripped of her CBE ? She needs something to cry about, stop any money’s she thinks she will receive from the post office, and have her before a criminal court for being complicit of ruining these people’s lives!😉

Crockerdial tears thats all that was

The Parliament/government UK needs to bring in laws to protect the consumers and the public, and more broadly, to protect everyone against this type of criminal activities and fraudulent activities by CEOs, board of directors, managers, fraud investigators, law firms, etc. Laws will make these criminals accountable for their actions in the uk and overseas !

POLICE ? WHAT HAVE THEY BEEN DOING ! If I prosecuted someone with false and misleading evidence l would be arrested immediately?

Why hasnt she been arrested yet?

Yet again another failure of a women in charge it not a good look the way her memory has failed on every question

Even at this stage the system is preserving massive compensation !

She is not being straight at all. She had years to sort out the problems. She was paid huge amounts of tax payers money. She has not offered to pay anything back. She must be arrested

JAIL JAIL JAIL.

Of course she knew, she was the ring leader

She's liar it's very easy to see it she is lying should be in jail

Saying leave it with me, and doing nothing, is incompetent at the very least,just what was she paid the huge salary for

Is it me, or are her cheeks turning red as she is being questioned.. Does this show she is feeling under intense stress

Mea culpa? I haven't heard one yet.

Beer is building a case for court.

Give her a. Shared. Prison cell. With rose west.

Was Paula v on the stand? I can’t recall

Didn't cry for the people she locked up

Just proves that even the religiously pious can lie through their teeth!

Fujitsu had built in a method of cussing remote computers and to remove money. They are guilty and yet no one is looking at this or where the stolen money went. Vennels and Co should have considered this. but would rather believe the Company doing it.

Ms vennell’s legal expenses involved in preparation/ rehearsals for this inquiry must be considerable. I hope the post office are not meeting this cost.

What does a normal human do when told "don't look" they immediately have a look

To all CEO’s better do your job carefully, correctly and honestly because with this wonderful independent media (not newspapers owned by big business) if you don’t do the right thing, you never know what will come down the line. What happened to these postmasters, prison when you are pregnant and separated from your family, suicide, 19 year old teenager put in prison, they were spat upon and their children abused and all innocent, the management of the PO aren’t innocent and their punishment should be far higher than what these innocent people had done to them. PV should also be stripped of all her finances and home with a prison sentence at the very least, she certainly has only herself to blame.

Believe it or not there is an element of the public that truly believe 'computors dont make mistakes'

Paula "l don't recall" Vennells. I don't recall. I don't recall.. l don't recall. I don't recall. I don't recall. I don't recall.🤔🤔🤔🤔

She new what was going on . She deserves to go to jail

Is it true that, when leaving the room, she asked Mr. Beer to ask Sir Wyn if he could arrange for her to have her CBE back, as she believed her evidence had convinced everyone that she was an innocent, much maligned, woman?

People have died wtf is wrong with these people if that was a normal person they would be already serving life

It's 'Always' about the Enablers 😑

A lying incompetent , what a combination !

As CEO did she never see a company structure chart showing her she had a prosecution department. Was she not told for years she had people successfully prosecuting and imprisoning and recovering money. Did she never do a walkabout in her company and get introduced to prosecuting lawyers who chatted to her about their jobs. She literally had a police and crown prosecution department and didn’t know????

Ooops. I fucked up, got caught, Better start crying then...

Prison..Prison…Prison…She has Created,Many Enemies…..👈🏼

She believes in an invisible friend...with no actual evidence. Religion... She doesnt know whats real. Or whats false.

PV... Don't tell me then i can deny i knew.

This is not unusual for the Civil Service.

It amazes me that she claims to be unawares, yet at no point becomes curious or suspicious from what others were saying. Definitely a case of ostrich management