Kendall Jenner cuddles up to best buddy Hailey Bieber before blowing out the candles on her cake in sweet snaps from 26th birthday bash The Criminal Cases Review Commission is examining 34 convictions.Ī High Court judgment handed down earlier this month ruled that it was possible for bugs and errors to cause shortfalls in the Post Office accounts. This was despite independent investigators saying, in 2015, that there was 'only limited evidence' for charges of theft.
Under her leadership, the Post Office took the decision to fight postmasters' claims in court, spending an estimated £32million of taxpayers' money on legal fees.įor years she and her senior team stubbornly insisted the computers never lied, calling the software 'robust'. Mrs Vennells, who is also an ordained priest, was head of the Post Office during the prosecution of 45 postmasters for false accounting or theft, according to information released under freedom of information laws. The £58million settlement was a victory for the Daily Mail, which has repeatedly highlighted the scandal and campaigned to save village post offices. Noel Thomas (pictured) was among more than 550 sub-postmasters who brought a group legal action against the Post Office Mrs Vennells was the Post Office network director from 2007, and chief executive from 2012 to 2019. One man committed suicide amid the stress of being chased for the 'missing' money. Some had been jailed, made bankrupt or hounded out of their jobs as fraudsters because glitches in the Horizon computer system caused shortfalls in their accounts. She left the company earlier this year, after earning £4.5million in pay and bonuses during her time as chief executive, and was handed a CBE for services to the Post Office.Įarlier this month, the Post Office capitulated in a series of high court trials and handed sub-postmasters £58million in compensation.
Paula Vennells, 60, has never admitted that errors in an IT system were to blame for millions of pounds appearing to go missing from post offices. Postmasters have branded the former Post Office boss who led the legal fight against 550 of its staff 'heartless and shameful' after she refused to apologise. Former Post Office boss Paula Vennells, 60
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