Explosive claim in the Sunday Times:
Source claims Paula Vennells was recommended for CBE by Business Department for "bending her conscience and holding the line" to keep cost of scandal down.
Full piece here: https://t.co/JNpUTKl6Zp via @olivershah@HarryYorke1@ShaunLintern
This image is a sample of the #PostOfficeInquiry evidence from November 2022 - it's a Fujitsu error log from 1999 identifying a bug that seemingly causes *exactly* the accounting errors subpostmasters were convicted for #PostOfficeScandal
More details:
https://t.co/TYf0faMa3e
@EdwardJDavey You are one of many.
But why did you fob Alan Bates off?
You said: "I don’t believe a meeting would serve any useful purpose."
@timfarron what do you think?
Sir Ed Davey has refused to apologise over his position in the Post Office scandal, despite being asked to more than ten times in an interview with ITV News' @PaulBrandITV
https://t.co/iC6gR2m0KG
Minutes of a secret Post Office meeting, uncovered in court, show the Post Office’s then PR boss directly lobbied senior BBC management to try to stop negative coverage of the scandal
The Post Office declined to comment during the public inquiry
https://t.co/yJ8O7cfQtZ
The Post Office lied to and threatened the BBC in a failed effort to suppress key evidence proving postmasters were innocent in the Horizon scandal
Read about the making of Panorama’s Trouble at the Post Office (2015)
And watch on @BBCiPlayer now
https://t.co/IymKaW1j4r
Former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells - in a letter replying to my questions whilst chair of @CommonsBTC - told me, and by extension Parliament, that she did not know Fujitsu could access the Post Office Horizon terminals.
Here’s the letter: https://t.co/diwEy3pGwV
CURRENT Director of Comms at the Post Office on tape revealing what the Post Office really thinks of Alan Bates, whilst claiming it's never been proved Horizon IT errors were responsible for holes in their accounts.
#PostOfficeScandal#MrBatesVsThePostOffice
The @PostOffice's then PR man @markdavies67 has lawyers to speak for him over this:
"Our client was doing his job… to ensure that any coverage of this matter was fair and accurate," they said
@SirIanBlair@DannyShawNews@obbsie What's worth investigating is why the Met covered up a racist attack by the suspect in 2020.
Then shut down any further inquiry on Stephen's murder.