Proforma Justice: Horizon IT Disaster – Looking Under the Rock

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You still continue to live in a cloud of denial, and it persists even today because you have given in 750-odd pages a craven, self-serving account

Paula Vennels – Background
Worked 12 years in total for Post Office
Begin January 2007
Made CEO October 2010
Left CEO April 2019 more than 8 year CEO

Inquiry date Paula Vennels

This brings to mind “leave no stone unturned,” meaning that you look everywhere, even under every figurative “stone.”

“keep looking for something carefully”, particularly when that something is well-hidden. It might also have overtones of discovering searching for something scandalous or incriminating.

Here is a quote from a journalist about digging up secrets:
“I was never fired or threatened with dismissal if I kept looking under rocks.”

This type of usage of “looking under rocks” often shows up paired with “shine a light” (i.e. turn public scrutiny on something). The combination is very common in reporting on corruption scandals.

Keep looking under rocks

You have given in 750 pages a craven self-serving account haven’t you?

Five questions for ex-Post Office boss Paula Vennells

1 When did she know accounts could be accessed remotely?
2 Did she lie to Parliament in 2015?
3 Why didn’t she do more to find out what was going on?
4 Why did she allow the Post Office to fight sub-postmasters in court?
5 Was anyone pulling her strings?

Je hebt in 750 pagina’s een lafhartig egoïstisch verslag gegeven, nietwaar?

Sobbing Paula Vennells accused of talking ‘absolute rubbish’

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24 mei 2024

Paula Vennells becomes emotional during Post Office Inquiry questioning

Paula Vennells, under questioning from Sam Stein KC, acting on behalf of a number of subpostmasters, insisted she “loved” the Post Office before growing visibly upset and pausing to compose herself.

Ex-Post Office CEO cries during grilling at Horizon scandal inquiry

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1 ‘I let these people down’: Paula Vennells sobs as she declares love for the Post Office

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2 Alan Bates reacts to Paula Vennell’s ‘rehearsed’ testimony | LBC

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26 mei 2024

Former subpostmaster Alan Bates speaks to Carol Vorderman following Paula Vennells’ testimony at the post office Inquiry. He described her as “extremely well rehearsed in her performance” and added “she loves the money.

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3 Paula Venells’ Post Office testimony: ‘astonishing announcement of her ignorance’

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4 Post Office Inquiry: Audience moan as Paula Vennells can’t recall key details | ITV News

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“She was either telling the truth but displaying an incompetence of gargantuan scale, or she was not telling the truth.”

Pauls Vennells’ testimony for the Post Office inquiry was an “astonishing announcement of her ignorance,” says Lord Arbuthnot.

5 Post Office scandal: former CEO admits evidence was false

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6 Post Office denied review to prevent ‘front page news’

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7 EX-Post Office Boss Paula Vennells Faces the Horizon IT Inquiry

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8 Paula Vennells’ cries at Post Office inquiry | Jeremy Vine

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23 mei 2024

Former Post office boss Paula Vennells gave her side of the story at the Post Office Inquiry yesterday, breaking down in tears and saying she was unaware of what was going on.

9 Paula Vennells failed to disclose 16 cases that undermined Horizon, Post Office inquiry heard

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10 Post Office: Paula Vennells only wanted to pay sub-postmasters ‘token’ compensation, inquiry hears

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11 Post Office Inquiry: Former Post Office boss Paula Vennells to give evidence

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12 Post Office Inquiry: Vennells accused of talking ‘nonsense’

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24 mei 2024

The former Post Office Chief Executive has been quizzed by lawyers representing former sub-postmasters, on the final day of her evidence to the Horizon IT Inquiry.

She was accused of talking nonsense and being the architect of her own downfall as Sky’s business correspondent Adele Robinson reports.

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You have given in 750 pages a craven self-serving account haven’t you?

13 Boos and groans as Paula Vennells ends three day grilling by sub-postmasters’ lawyers | ITV News

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24 mei 2024

Former Post Office boss Paula Vennells was booed by subpostmasters, grilled by lawyers and pushed to tears multiple times during her three days’ evidence to the Horizon IT Inquiry.

The ordained priest entered the witness box at Aldwych House in central London to face what one former subpostmistress described as a room of people with “eyes full of hatred”.

14 Secret tape reveals Paula Vennells was told of faulty Horizon software | ITV News

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15 Cute Puppies Galore!

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