Vennells gives evidence to Post Office Horizon inquiry
From 22 May 2024 former Post Office chief executive Paula Vennells gave three days of evidence to the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry.
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From 22 May 2024 former Post Office chief executive Paula Vennells gave three days of evidence to the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry. On her first day she apologised in tears for her part in the Horizon scandal, while denying that she had known about remote access to branch accounts.
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Paula Vennells
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Vennells gives evidence to Post Office Horizon inquiry. Actor role on this event; contribution size permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction). Contribution size is permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction); provisional 0.4 stored because contributions.size is NOT NULL.
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- 1.standard.co.ukchecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, final URL = original (no non-trivial redirect), claim in text: vennells+inquiry · verified
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Factrail. (2026). Vennells gives evidence to Post Office Horizon inquiry. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/vennells-inquiry-testimony-2024-05-22
https://factrail.ai/facts/vennells-inquiry-testimony-2024-05-22
Accessed 15 October 2026.
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