What is UK Post Office Scandal? Who is Paula Vennells?
Paula Vennells, the ex-British Post Office head, on Wednesday become the one of the most trending persons on the social as she had sobbed after appearing before a public inquiry into the wrongful conviction of hundreds of postmasters. She claimed that the event caused by errors not conspiracy, and if anything she had been «too trusting» of others. The incident has been one of the country’s biggest miscarriages of justice that saw hundreds of branch managers wrongly convicted of theft or fraud because of a faulty computer system, as per report.
While Vennells was CEO, a group of postal workers took legal action against the Post Office in 2016. Three years later, the High Court in London ruled that Horizon contained a number of «bugs, errors and defects» and that the Post Office «knew there were serious issues about the reliability» of the system, including that employees at Fujitsu could remotely access the ledgers of branch managers.
«I am very, very sorry,» she said, in her first public comments in nearly a decade.
UK Post Office Scandal
More than 700 local post office branch managers, who were often at the heart of small communities, were convicted between 1999 and 2015 after a faulty IT system called Horizon from Japan's Fujitsu led to shortfalls in their accounts.
The state-owned Post Office prosecuted them under special powers, despite evidence that it knew of the IT problems. Some were jailed, others bankrupted and many saw marriages and reputations
