She knew. And she took millions of pounds in salary while destroying average people. Crocodile tears. She is also a liar. Shame,

This conceited woman gives me the cold shivers.

She needs to go to prison. But won't of course... She will go off into the sunset with a nice fat pension.

Time the police made some arrests

Just remember this is a person of the church who NEARLY became a Bishop! Yet is happy to blatantly lie on TV in front of thousands.

Her arrogance & incompetence cost the British people 100 million pounds that was needed plus untold horror & misery for Sub Postmasters & their families

They spent 10x as much money chasing the postmasters then investigating the problem .

100 million pounds of taxpayers money to prosecute innocent people

I hope she gets arrested. Just for her to have a record

Vennels has to be jailed, she knew exactly what she was doing, no riddling should let her out of being held to account.

One of the two times she blubbed today was when she told the inquest the effect of the inquiry has had on HER and HER family. No mention of the 550+ postmasters. A truly repulsive person.

How on Earth did she get this position of enormous responsibility. She’s not fit to be a milk monitor!

How can see ever show her face in public again.

If this woman is as pious and she pretends to be , she should be saying " I was CEO, it happened under my watch , I take full responsibility for my total incompedence and negligence " .....That's what a genuinly honest, empathic, person of faith would say, IMO She's just trying to squirm out of any responsibility like a coward

And she almost became bishop of London,how would that psychopath run the church...she'd probably ask 60 pieces of silver

She needs to go to prison for the rest of her life.

''Don't worry Paula it doesn't matter how culpable you are, you won't go to Prison this is Britain you and people like will always be protected''.

A vicar, a CEO and former MD enters the room and Lies like a flat fish

Every public institution in Britain is broken… BBC, NHS, Home Office, and now the Post Office. Where is the accountability?

Paula vennells responsible for the cover up Adam crozier responsible for the prosecutions

Massive cover up.......Shame on her

Jail her, but they won't and of course its us that will pay

That 100 million was our money.

Paula Vennells is a criminal deserved to serve jail time up to 25 years for covering up the wrongful convictions of nearly 1000 subpostmasters.

Those bonuses paid to her from the money she took back from the postmasters must be taken back. She should be prosecuted together with her leadership team with the same vigour that they persued the postmasters.

There is a prison cell waiting for Vennells.

the word Hypocrite has completely lost is meaning

She must not be allowed to simply go back to her big house and fancy holidays after this. Jail time and big fines needed

If she's allowed to just walk away from this it will make a complete ridicule of the British legal system.

This is when his father should sue the Post Office for damages, and hopefully get awarded a million pounds of punitive ddamages compensation

The constant reference to The Post Office as if it was an identity not related to her is disingenuous.

Isn't it amazing when all of a sudden these people have memory loss when its convenient But suddenly minor details when it is required to lay the blame on others when the opportunity presents itself Perjury apparently does not appear to bother them or the thaught of a Prison Sentence for the abhorrent way and manner in which these Postmasters and women were treated leading to the death of one person that could have been completely avoided if they only had told the truth No prison sentence will be enough for the crimes they have committed

She had the audacity to bypass confidentiality of an employee who Un - Alived themselves because of this scandal., tried to pin it on a possible mental issue that may not have even been apparent. She is crying because she got caught, has also tried to blame post office legal team ( you are all responsible)

Will all the P.O. staff who told blatant lies or prefabricated the truth be charged with perjury?

People forget the Post Office also wasted many millions changing its name to Consignio ? or something similar ? was a complete flop so reverted back to normal wasting millions in the process.

How do people like this get to high office, liars and criminals

Always blaming "...the Post Office..." "the Post Office" when SHE was in charge!! Shirking responsibility doesn't work Mater Vennells.

Wow the Board authorizes 100m to pe paid to their mates in the law firms but nothing to victims! Wonder why ?

You have to ask: 'How did she get her job in the first place?" She has demonstrated none of the competencies expected of a CEO? She states that she doesn’t really understand the technicalities of the activities of the organisation she was the head of. She relied on a circle of people to delegate her responsibilities to! At what point did she ever do anything to warrant the huge salary she received? Incompetent or corrupt?

She's not the only one that should be punished but she is the worst of them.

So no one remembers anything and no one will be held accountable.

Governments also complicit, disgusting.

Who spends 100 million and yet doesn't know what she was fighting about .she is a liar through and through

Unlike the S.P.'S all she's lost is her reputation otherwise she's financially secure for life. They lost reputations, homes, incomes, marriages, savings, peace of mind, and in some cases their lives. Her tears of self-pity cut no ice with ME.

Pure evil. She never ever asked the most obvious question! Why have nearly 1000 employees started theiving??? Why? WTF is going on???

Mr Patel is doing his father proud eloquently setting out the shameful actions of the PO.

what a liar!

Do not pass GO, do not collect your overly generous pension, and go directly to jail!

Vennells is evil, a monster - harmed and poured misery on so many

Post office spent £100m in litigation to chase sub postmaster on 10s of 1000s. Tell me this is cover up without telling me this is a cover up 🙄

Her criminal disregard for justice speaks for itself.

How will the deaths from suicide be resurrected, so apologies can be given and whole families recompensed for their funeral expenses ?

She is guilty of everything she has been accused of so why not strip her and her family of all assets and imprison her for ten years. Her actions have brought on this inquiry at a cost to the British people and brought the very Royal awards system shame. It's obvious that she is an uncaring wretch without compassion for the sub postmasters lives she has ruined, what are we waiting for jail her now.

Isn’t the truth that all the senior executives took a vow to forget anything of importance and or a vow to have a non- enquiring mind while employed! How on earth anyone however senior (and especially very senior) could say they never questioned anything they didn’t understand that crossed their “desk” in whatever way is unbelievable. If you don’t understand something or it’s outside your area of expertise surely you say to an expert explain that to me in simple terms so that I at least have an appreciation. But they all say they NEVER once asked the obvious questions . No it’s unbelievable or a total lie by them all individually and collectively!

100m to cover-up the biggest scandal, and the enquiry ongoing will add further cost and STILL the PO will have to pay out compensation at probably double the rate it would have done 10 years ago, due to kicking the can down the road for many years. Honesty is the best policy, but does not pay bonusses for doing the right thing. To add to the bill, the Met will kick off criminal prosecutions soon, so the taxpayer will rend up covering even more debt. The Vennells-Bogert conspiracy, including the minor players in this cover up should end up delivering letters in clink.

This is the consequence of breaking the glass ceiling.

Has anyone said when these 'errors' in the system actually stopped? Was there a date or some explanation?

So who has all the money

It's jail time for the boss😠

Her testimony is simply not credible. She never knew!!! She was misled!!! But you read her emails and texts, they tell the true story. She is a lying monster and needs to serve time for her part in this despicable miscarriage of justice

Atrocious behavior pay them Post office - NOW

Surely, if the Horizon system was so robust, there would be an electronic trail to follow the money that disappeared?

I wonder how many times she practiced body swerving the truth in front of the mirror. All her answers were carefully crafted to ensure she dodges conviction or prison.

She should go to jail

Expensive: are ruined lives, imprisonment, death expensive… disgusting that this should happen in Britain. And we also need to consider the tainted bloods case, another disgusting cover up slightly lost at the moment due to the post office enquiry but I trust it will emerge again….

We shoukd protest on behalf of the post 💳

the software was rubbish and every post office 1000 s were being robbed an ice berg of sheer incompetence

So she didn't care that people commited suicide and people jailed because of her actions. She is despicable, callous and lacks any empathy. Hope she and the others involved in this scandal are jailed and made to pay damages out of her assets to compensate the victims So should the others involved.

Talk about " Duck Shoving " this person is not being truthful ..

My only fear is that none of these will be brought to justice

They were making BANK off the subpostmasters and paying themselves huge bonuses out of their ill-gotten gains. I also notice how she keeps talking about "the post office" does things as if she didn't have ultimate decision-making power as the CEO.

The KC has done his homework very well and has a keen BS detector. Despite excelling at deception they have met their match and are methodically being exposed for all to see.

Surely she must know that we are all watching and scoffing at her self-pity and fake tears.

There is another obvious question! Show me the bank statements and highlight the thousands that were stolen. Show me the money NOT a computer printout.

She should be prosecuted just like the post masters were, i doubt she's going to lose her home or her marriage, shes an utter disgrace

They should open the Post Office up to competition. It is a public disgrace stuffed full of overpayed, arrogant staff. Not only are we grossly overcharged for their monopolistic services it looks like the taxpayer will be picking up a multi billion pound bill to quite rightly compensate these people who were treated so appallingly. These incompetent executives should be in jail but the way things seem to work in this screwed up country they will be left to live a life of luxury having screwed up the lives of innocent, hard-working people.

Where did the alledgedly stolen money actually go? It did not go to the accused postmasters. Did it go to people working for Fujitsu? Did it go to the post office gangsters that bullied the postmasters into plea bargaining? Did it go to finance the bonuses of the post office directors themselves? Money does not just disappear.

I don't remember ,i can't recall ? I bet you she can tell her salary and bonuses to the last penny . She wont go to gaol these sort never do ?

Psychopaths are very cunning and crafty. Paula Vennells knows exactly what she's doing, using manipulation and deflecting responsibility off herself and rather unto others. Every move is calculated, planned, manipulated, and controlled. You see her doing this over and over again in the Inquiry. She's a master chess player in this exercise. Let's hope Sir Wyn will checkmate her.

Jo doe, embezzles 10 grand hes down the line, alex belfield five years for speaking the truth, vennells, let off and a nice big fat pension.

They stole money they were not owed and paid themselves a bonus with the profit. Jail the fucking lost of them.

A CEO must have had almost weekly view of budget expenditure of every department. A security / legal department with at least 100 staff , plus external law firms is a huge expense. Hundreds of millions per year i would guess. What was the ROI on such a department? Was the post office recovering all this ? If it was not ... What was the point ?

That money is appaling, it would build a new hospital. Why is waste so effortless today. Heads have to roll. This courtcase will have to be funded by the post office. R

“Sorry I can’t recall. I’m really sorry you’ll have to take me at face value, I can’t recall”. But strange that even around 15 or 20 years ago, and my memory does fail me from time to time, I always remember the things I did then and the reasons and circumstances around those from which I made my decisions. Every. Single. Time. I was a junior manager of a small SME. That was pretty insignificant. And she was the CEO of a major national enterprise. She knows every single time, she knows and she’s a horrible lying lizard. 🦎

Got a sneaking suspicion this woman isn't going to win the contest for the 'UKs most popular diversity hire of 2024'.

Her presentation is of someone with profound antisocial personality disorder. Completely without empathy for those she tortured, but tears for her own situation (entirely of her own making, due to absolute self-righteous, entitled arrogance over the many years she was in charge). She failed in oversight of the organisation, she has insinuated others kept her in the dark, thus potentially throwing them under the bus - and she still gives a strong impression that the suffering she caused to ordinary, hardworking people was accidental and had little to do with her negligence and wilful doubling down in the face of clear evidence Horizon wasn't fit for purpose.

Cruel is a real understatement. Down right wicked.

It smacks of a HUGE umbrella cover-up - unless they actually thought they'd hit a sudden jackpot in crime detection!!!

Once cout in this criminal activity they should be made to repay any monies earned after the first date it occurred as they would be taking money under false pretences

Even after they found out and system was flawed they still prosicuted there own postmasters .

Boo hoo Vennells, not even real ones. Tissues contained smell of onions!😭😭😭

Venoables is a scab

They all knew. Why else did the phone reps tell the sub-postmasters that they were the only one this was happening to? It was obviously part of a concerted effort to downplay what was a serious problem.

Jail the liar

What did she get paid for

Church of england?

I am continually impressed by how the victims and the victims’ families- such as the chap being interviewed here, despite the appalling, unspeakable criminal experiences they have experienced, carry themselves with such dignity, clarity, and respect, and reasonableness, unlike the people who were involved in perpetrating these crimes, who have been questioned at the inquiry who all carry the themselves with a complete lack of dignity, compassion, truthfulness. I hope the cps engage and prosecute as many as they can. At the very least almost all of them have been involved in perverting the course of justice if nothing else. Indeed I can’t think of a single one I’ve heard being questioned (though I haven’t heard all)that didn’t clearly help pervert the course of justice.

Trusting your team so completely, so unquestioningly, so vacantly, shows an indifference for truth. Paula has no idea that she has a duty to Truth. Blindly accepting, believing and repeating what you have been told does not work, long term, for any of us. That last statement is something we each can work out for ourselves without having to be taught it. That is why we have a mind.

Only thing she is upset about is being caught

The software was at fault.... Endof... Tony cuenca