"She's A HYPOCRITE!" - Post Office Boss Paula Vennells In Tears Over Scandal Inquiry
The son of wrongly-convicted subpostmaster Varchas Patel has called Paula Vennells a "hypocrite", as the ex-Post Office boss faces her second day of questioning.
"The Post Office and Government spent nearly £100m trying to ruin Alan Bates and the group!"
Former Post Office boss Paula Vennells has broken her almost decade-long silence on the Horizon scandal as she was quizzed on how things unfolded on her watch.
During her evidence to the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry, Ms Vennells cut an emotional figure as she broke down twice under questioning from counsel to the inquiry Jason Beer KC.
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She knew. And she took millions of pounds in salary while destroying average people. Crocodile tears. She is also a liar. Shame,
@gravyau
27 күн бұрын
Shame, shame, shame!
@davidmcivor2761
27 күн бұрын
steady now, you are being unfair to crocodiles, I think you meant to say she should be thrown to the crocodiles!.
@MarkAHowell
27 күн бұрын
Public Sector Executives are all the same!! Look at Our NHS! Time to take back OUR Public Services from these over-paid NEGLIGENT LAZY LIARS!
@raymondbonington9355
26 күн бұрын
Yes but she goes to church 😩
@victorsauvage1890
25 күн бұрын
The rule is - the statute law provides - very much harsher penalties for public officers such as magistrate and police officer who is convicted of mischief done in the course of his duties. The wrongdoings of Mrs Vanells go beyond causing an injury in the course of her duties to a single person, on one occasion. Mrs Vennells has used her position to T E R R O R I S E the British public. single occasion -
Her arrogance & incompetence cost the British people 100 million pounds that was needed plus untold horror & misery for Sub Postmasters & their families
One of the two times she blubbed today was when she told the inquest the effect of the inquiry has had on HER and HER family. No mention of the 550+ postmasters. A truly repulsive person.
@normankennith7919
27 күн бұрын
she knows all there is about the crying game!!!
@paulrossbotham4359
27 күн бұрын
@@normankennith7919 and she knows the words of the song by heart
@normankennith7919
27 күн бұрын
@@paulrossbotham4359 don't worry! the house of lords, or is it house of frauds, awaits her!! if not, 'i'm a celebrity gmooh,' which worked well for matt hancock, or 'big brother', would welcome her!! the british people are such a forgiving lot!!!
@laurieharper1526
27 күн бұрын
She's a classic narcissist.
@andrewallen9993
27 күн бұрын
Did she go to jail or bankrupt? No! So how could it affect her and her family more than her and her family, safe at home and absolutely rolling in money?
This conceited woman gives me the cold shivers.
She needs to go to prison. But won't of course... She will go off into the sunset with a nice fat pension.
@amandamcauley
27 күн бұрын
Plus the others who were prosecuted but not jailed.
@valerietorreggiani9973
25 күн бұрын
I hope the police are planning their moves!
@victorsauvage1890
25 күн бұрын
@@valerietorreggiani9973If it was good enough for the (innocent) Sub Postmaster - it is good enough for the corrupt officials who CONNIVED to imprison the INNOCENT IN TERROREM (i.e. meaning “AS A WARNING”)
Just remember this is a person of the church who NEARLY became a Bishop! Yet is happy to blatantly lie on TV in front of thousands.
@ruthcollins2841
27 күн бұрын
Mate of Woke Welby of Cunterbury 😊
@rheazeus123
25 күн бұрын
I'm surprised they didn't except her anyway.. religious hierarchy is full of charlatans and psychopaths..
@tomconnolly7420
25 күн бұрын
The pious are always the most posionous.
@11abrook
25 күн бұрын
I think the Church thing was a career move for her, not a sincere religious one.
@pcat1378
25 күн бұрын
@@11abrook Rubbish you don't become a Bishop because you fancy a career change
Vennels has to be jailed, she knew exactly what she was doing, no riddling should let her out of being held to account.
@victorsauvage1890
25 күн бұрын
She connived to falsely imprison innocent members of the public ‘in terrorem’ - as a threat.
Time the police made some arrests
@MR-gl9xu
27 күн бұрын
The Post Office definitely scammed these people out of money and homes … they were Scamming Fraudsters on a massive scale! Definitely deserve jail!!! Please oh please!
@user-sx3pk8mf1r
27 күн бұрын
Perhaps any police force except the Met. They seem to have a habit of either screwing things up or they do absolutely fek all.
@Ps119
27 күн бұрын
Police don't care enough about the lives wrecked and lost so are unwilling to prosecute their elite establishment friends. They will only prosecute if they are forced to.
@dinaworkman306
26 күн бұрын
The police are chocolate fireguards
I hope she gets arrested. Just for her to have a record
''Don't worry Paula it doesn't matter how culpable you are, you won't go to Prison this is Britain you and people like will always be protected''.
@user-xq6me6pd7q
27 күн бұрын
We have already been told that the police will not be arresting people as the jails are full so she definitely won't be going anywhere near an arrest let alone jail but then there are 660 in the commons who should be locked up for covid so the whole thing is a joke.
@johndewever1322
27 күн бұрын
She’ll require permanent security won’t she?
@raymondbonington9355
26 күн бұрын
Fred the shred Goodwin still living the high life Phillips green on his yacht,list goes on .
@victorsauvage1890
25 күн бұрын
Not so!
If this woman is as pious and she pretends to be , she should be saying " I was CEO, it happened under my watch , I take full responsibility for my total incompedence and negligence " .....That's what a genuinly honest, empathic, person of faith would say, IMO She's just trying to squirm out of any responsibility like a coward
@normankennith7919
27 күн бұрын
that's what religion does to some people!! i'm not religious, thank god!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@poppy1779
27 күн бұрын
She operates on the same splintered frequency as Welby.
@normankennith7919
27 күн бұрын
@@poppy1779 YOU COULD WELBY RIGHT! I MAKE VENNELLS MUCH MORE GUILTY THAN LUCY LETBY!! THE GOOD LORD WORKS IN MYSTERIOUS FUCKING WAYS!!!
@user-og8lk7wv7h
27 күн бұрын
It's not just incompetence, she has been recorded and there is a paper trail of her LYING she has committed crimes!!
@mark.lawrence
26 күн бұрын
100%
They spent 10x as much money chasing the postmasters then investigating the problem .
@continental_drift
27 күн бұрын
Fact is the "investigators" didn't investigate anything. They just summed an alleged bill of goods. Incompetence all the way down.
@victorsauvage1890
25 күн бұрын
Yes - That same amount - doubled - ought to be paid to each sub post master affected.
How on Earth did she get this position of enormous responsibility. She’s not fit to be a milk monitor!
@victorsauvage1890
25 күн бұрын
Answer : The character / emotional depth of government Ministers is a reflection of the character / emotional depth of the rank and file membership of the major political parties - And the government appointees and senior administrators and broad direction of public policy is a reflection of the character and emotional depth of the government Ministers and members of Parliament. If the mass of the population joins the r as Nd and file membership of the major political parties the good sense of the public will offset the influence of the current weak characters within the rank and file membership of the major political parties. To
Every public institution in Britain is broken… BBC, NHS, Home Office, and now the Post Office. Where is the accountability?
@grahamkelly5846
25 күн бұрын
Ad the FCA AND TREASURY to that list selling mortgages of failed banks to the highest bidder, Davidson Kempner, American hedge fund, people to become cash cows for life, set up by Sunak and nodded thru by FCA.. £5 BILLION into Treasury coffers on the backs of ordinary people who's taxes were used to bail these banks out in the first place.. Love to see these guys in the dock.. Abject disgrace all criminals 😠
@victorsauvage1890
25 күн бұрын
Answer : By joining a political party you offset the influence of the shallow upon the broad direction of public policy.
A vicar, a CEO and former MD enters the room and Lies like a flat fish
How can see ever show her face in public again.
She needs to go to prison for the rest of her life.
@Ps119
27 күн бұрын
longer
@johndewever1322
27 күн бұрын
Then let’s hope her stay in prison is short
The constant reference to The Post Office as if it was an identity not related to her is disingenuous.
Paula Vennells is a criminal deserved to serve jail time up to 25 years for covering up the wrongful convictions of nearly 1000 subpostmasters.
@ianbarr5110
25 күн бұрын
She spent £100,000,000.00 doing just that. Fattening the coffers of dodgy lawyers.
@victorsauvage1890
25 күн бұрын
A term of imprisonment is in order in this case as a deterrent.
100 million pounds of taxpayers money to prosecute innocent people
And she almost became bishop of London,how would that psychopath run the church...she'd probably ask 60 pieces of silver
@ruthcollins2841
27 күн бұрын
That's how Woke Welby became Archfakerick of Cunterbury then! Pieces of silver,🦜🩼 🏴☠️Pieces of silver!🦜🩼🏴☠️
@paulukjames7799
27 күн бұрын
Nearly as bad as the arch bishop of wokebury
@wakeupuk3860
26 күн бұрын
On come on, don't be so 'naive' who do you think runs the Church ie. Justin Welby
@MR-gl9xu
25 күн бұрын
She’d have brought back tithes!!!
@johnwhitehead1305
24 күн бұрын
She would accuse the collection personnel of stealing!
Jail her, but they won't and of course its us that will pay
If she's allowed to just walk away from this it will make a complete ridicule of the British legal system.
Paula vennells responsible for the cover up Adam crozier responsible for the prosecutions
She must not be allowed to simply go back to her big house and fancy holidays after this. Jail time and big fines needed
Those bonuses paid to her from the money she took back from the postmasters must be taken back. She should be prosecuted together with her leadership team with the same vigour that they persued the postmasters.
@victorsauvage1890
25 күн бұрын
The statutes set down penalties of twice the severity for a public official - such as a magistrate - found to have accepted an inducement
Massive cover up.......Shame on her
Always blaming "...the Post Office..." "the Post Office" when SHE was in charge!! Shirking responsibility doesn't work Mater Vennells.
the word Hypocrite has completely lost is meaning
She had the audacity to bypass confidentiality of an employee who Un - Alived themselves because of this scandal., tried to pin it on a possible mental issue that may not have even been apparent. She is crying because she got caught, has also tried to blame post office legal team ( you are all responsible)
That 100 million was our money.
This is when his father should sue the Post Office for damages, and hopefully get awarded a million pounds of punitive ddamages compensation
Isn't it amazing when all of a sudden these people have memory loss when its convenient But suddenly minor details when it is required to lay the blame on others when the opportunity presents itself Perjury apparently does not appear to bother them or the thaught of a Prison Sentence for the abhorrent way and manner in which these Postmasters and women were treated leading to the death of one person that could have been completely avoided if they only had told the truth No prison sentence will be enough for the crimes they have committed
There is a prison cell waiting for Vennells.
You have to ask: 'How did she get her job in the first place?" She has demonstrated none of the competencies expected of a CEO? She states that she doesn’t really understand the technicalities of the activities of the organisation she was the head of. She relied on a circle of people to delegate her responsibilities to! At what point did she ever do anything to warrant the huge salary she received? Incompetent or corrupt?
@lovely007-sb3qu
25 күн бұрын
Definitely corrupt.
What an absolute disgrace.
Who spends 100 million and yet doesn't know what she was fighting about .she is a liar through and through
Will all the P.O. staff who told blatant lies or prefabricated the truth be charged with perjury?
She's not the only one that should be punished but she is the worst of them.
People forget the Post Office also wasted many millions changing its name to Consignio ? or something similar ? was a complete flop so reverted back to normal wasting millions in the process.
Mr Patel is doing his father proud eloquently setting out the shameful actions of the PO.
Governments also complicit, disgusting.
So no one remembers anything and no one will be held accountable.
How do people like this get to high office, liars and criminals
@Froggie24546
25 күн бұрын
It's the whole elites and the establishment protecting its powers . There's a whole system that backs each other.
@victorsauvage1890
25 күн бұрын
Yes - They are - One PO solicitor being questioned during this Inquiry repeatedly prefaced his answers with the reassuring phrase : “To be HONEST . . . “
Unlike the S.P.'S all she's lost is her reputation otherwise she's financially secure for life. They lost reputations, homes, incomes, marriages, savings, peace of mind, and in some cases their lives. Her tears of self-pity cut no ice with ME.
@Froggie24546
25 күн бұрын
She has to be jailed
@victorsauvage1890
25 күн бұрын
@@Froggie24546She is a Gestapo type
Wow the Board authorizes 100m to pe paid to their mates in the law firms but nothing to victims! Wonder why ?
@victorsauvage1890
25 күн бұрын
The answer is simple : The character or level of emotional maturity of Ministers is a reflection of the character / emotional maturity of the rank and file membership of British Labour Party - We must all join the rank and file of the British Labour Party - in great numbers as our grand parents did!
Isn’t the truth that all the senior executives took a vow to forget anything of importance and or a vow to have a non- enquiring mind while employed! How on earth anyone however senior (and especially very senior) could say they never questioned anything they didn’t understand that crossed their “desk” in whatever way is unbelievable. If you don’t understand something or it’s outside your area of expertise surely you say to an expert explain that to me in simple terms so that I at least have an appreciation. But they all say they NEVER once asked the obvious questions . No it’s unbelievable or a total lie by them all individually and collectively!
Do not pass GO, do not collect your overly generous pension, and go directly to jail!
Her criminal disregard for justice speaks for itself.
How will the deaths from suicide be resurrected, so apologies can be given and whole families recompensed for their funeral expenses ?
This is the consequence of breaking the glass ceiling.
@Lynnefromlyn
26 күн бұрын
Don’t be silly. It has nothing to do with that at all! Do you think no men should be allowed top jobs just because some men have committed fraud, theft, murder etc? The stupidest comment on the internet today.
what a liar!
Post office spent £100m in litigation to chase sub postmaster on 10s of 1000s. Tell me this is cover up without telling me this is a cover up 🙄
Pure evil. She never ever asked the most obvious question! Why have nearly 1000 employees started theiving??? Why? WTF is going on???
She is guilty of everything she has been accused of so why not strip her and her family of all assets and imprison her for ten years. Her actions have brought on this inquiry at a cost to the British people and brought the very Royal awards system shame. It's obvious that she is an uncaring wretch without compassion for the sub postmasters lives she has ruined, what are we waiting for jail her now.
Vennells is evil, a monster - harmed and poured misery on so many
100m to cover-up the biggest scandal, and the enquiry ongoing will add further cost and STILL the PO will have to pay out compensation at probably double the rate it would have done 10 years ago, due to kicking the can down the road for many years. Honesty is the best policy, but does not pay bonusses for doing the right thing. To add to the bill, the Met will kick off criminal prosecutions soon, so the taxpayer will rend up covering even more debt. The Vennells-Bogert conspiracy, including the minor players in this cover up should end up delivering letters in clink.
Has anyone said when these 'errors' in the system actually stopped? Was there a date or some explanation?
@victorsauvage1890
25 күн бұрын
Yes! After the Horizon system was installed the number of major financial irregularities reported jumped 50 fold. (From one per year to one per week.)
So who has all the money
@user-ns8ug1pv5p
27 күн бұрын
I guess it was spent on prosecutions.
@victorsauvage1890
25 күн бұрын
The PO didn’t actually lose a penny - But the erroneous shortfalls were attributed to an unsuspecting Post Master.
It's jail time for the boss😠
Atrocious behavior pay them Post office - NOW
She should go to jail
I wonder how many times she practiced body swerving the truth in front of the mirror. All her answers were carefully crafted to ensure she dodges conviction or prison.
@victorsauvage1890
25 күн бұрын
She is Gestapo material
We shoukd protest on behalf of the post 💳
the software was rubbish and every post office 1000 s were being robbed an ice berg of sheer incompetence
@victorsauvage1890
25 күн бұрын
Great advertisement for Fujitsu - In the US the government would take Fujitsu to court - (as happened with BP oil platform leak and with Volkswagen) - and compel Fujitsu to pay for everything.
Surely, if the Horizon system was so robust, there would be an electronic trail to follow the money that disappeared?
Her testimony is simply not credible. She never knew!!! She was misled!!! But you read her emails and texts, they tell the true story. She is a lying monster and needs to serve time for her part in this despicable miscarriage of justice
@victorsauvage1890
25 күн бұрын
Her closest supporter within the organisation said in an email exchange quoted by a barrister assisting the inquiry: “I cannot support you any longer” [I will endeavour to find the time point on the video and send that to you. You have really hit the nail on the head.]
@victorsauvage1890
25 күн бұрын
She is Gestapo material
Expensive: are ruined lives, imprisonment, death expensive… disgusting that this should happen in Britain. And we also need to consider the tainted bloods case, another disgusting cover up slightly lost at the moment due to the post office enquiry but I trust it will emerge again….
Talk about " Duck Shoving " this person is not being truthful ..
My only fear is that none of these will be brought to justice
The KC has done his homework very well and has a keen BS detector. Despite excelling at deception they have met their match and are methodically being exposed for all to see.
So she didn't care that people commited suicide and people jailed because of her actions. She is despicable, callous and lacks any empathy. Hope she and the others involved in this scandal are jailed and made to pay damages out of her assets to compensate the victims So should the others involved.
She should be prosecuted just like the post masters were, i doubt she's going to lose her home or her marriage, shes an utter disgrace
Surely she must know that we are all watching and scoffing at her self-pity and fake tears.
@victorsauvage1890
25 күн бұрын
She is ‘amoral’ - Doesn’t know the difference between right and wrong.
They were making BANK off the subpostmasters and paying themselves huge bonuses out of their ill-gotten gains. I also notice how she keeps talking about "the post office" does things as if she didn't have ultimate decision-making power as the CEO.
Where did the alledgedly stolen money actually go? It did not go to the accused postmasters. Did it go to people working for Fujitsu? Did it go to the post office gangsters that bullied the postmasters into plea bargaining? Did it go to finance the bonuses of the post office directors themselves? Money does not just disappear.
They should open the Post Office up to competition. It is a public disgrace stuffed full of overpayed, arrogant staff. Not only are we grossly overcharged for their monopolistic services it looks like the taxpayer will be picking up a multi billion pound bill to quite rightly compensate these people who were treated so appallingly. These incompetent executives should be in jail but the way things seem to work in this screwed up country they will be left to live a life of luxury having screwed up the lives of innocent, hard-working people.
Jo doe, embezzles 10 grand hes down the line, alex belfield five years for speaking the truth, vennells, let off and a nice big fat pension.
I don't remember ,i can't recall ? I bet you she can tell her salary and bonuses to the last penny . She wont go to gaol these sort never do ?
Cruel is a real understatement. Down right wicked.
“Sorry I can’t recall. I’m really sorry you’ll have to take me at face value, I can’t recall”. But strange that even around 15 or 20 years ago, and my memory does fail me from time to time, I always remember the things I did then and the reasons and circumstances around those from which I made my decisions. Every. Single. Time. I was a junior manager of a small SME. That was pretty insignificant. And she was the CEO of a major national enterprise. She knows every single time, she knows and she’s a horrible lying lizard. 🦎
Got a sneaking suspicion this woman isn't going to win the contest for the 'UKs most popular diversity hire of 2024'.
That money is appaling, it would build a new hospital. Why is waste so effortless today. Heads have to roll. This courtcase will have to be funded by the post office. R
There is another obvious question! Show me the bank statements and highlight the thousands that were stolen. Show me the money NOT a computer printout.
@victorsauvage1890
25 күн бұрын
Yes - You may be interested to know that there is a special record of (‘log’) keystrokes held by Fujitsu - It is very easy - (if time consuming) - for computer programmers to actually go through every key stroke entered by the SPM at about the time of the alleged misappropriation of large amounts of funds - This is decisive because there is no suggestion of irregularities in CASH held at any of these branches. Thus if the record (“log”, as the call it) of keystrokes made on the computer terminal does not indicate a transfer or withdrawal of funds - (via the ‘terminal’) - then there cannot have been any misappropriation of funds by the SPM.
@victorsauvage1890
25 күн бұрын
You would be a thorough investigator!
Psychopaths are very cunning and crafty. Paula Vennells knows exactly what she's doing, using manipulation and deflecting responsibility off herself and rather unto others. Every move is calculated, planned, manipulated, and controlled. You see her doing this over and over again in the Inquiry. She's a master chess player in this exercise. Let's hope Sir Wyn will checkmate her.
@victorsauvage1890
25 күн бұрын
Gestapo material
A CEO must have had almost weekly view of budget expenditure of every department. A security / legal department with at least 100 staff , plus external law firms is a huge expense. Hundreds of millions per year i would guess. What was the ROI on such a department? Was the post office recovering all this ? If it was not ... What was the point ?
Venoables is a scab
Jail the liar
They stole money they were not owed and paid themselves a bonus with the profit. Jail the fucking lost of them.
@victorsauvage1890
25 күн бұрын
A strong deterrent penalty is in order in this case.
Even after they found out and system was flawed they still prosicuted there own postmasters .
Boo hoo Vennells, not even real ones. Tissues contained smell of onions!😭😭😭
Once cout in this criminal activity they should be made to repay any monies earned after the first date it occurred as they would be taking money under false pretences
It smacks of a HUGE umbrella cover-up - unless they actually thought they'd hit a sudden jackpot in crime detection!!!
Her presentation is of someone with profound antisocial personality disorder. Completely without empathy for those she tortured, but tears for her own situation (entirely of her own making, due to absolute self-righteous, entitled arrogance over the many years she was in charge). She failed in oversight of the organisation, she has insinuated others kept her in the dark, thus potentially throwing them under the bus - and she still gives a strong impression that the suffering she caused to ordinary, hardworking people was accidental and had little to do with her negligence and wilful doubling down in the face of clear evidence Horizon wasn't fit for purpose.
They all knew. Why else did the phone reps tell the sub-postmasters that they were the only one this was happening to? It was obviously part of a concerted effort to downplay what was a serious problem.
I am continually impressed by how the victims and the victims’ families- such as the chap being interviewed here, despite the appalling, unspeakable criminal experiences they have experienced, carry themselves with such dignity, clarity, and respect, and reasonableness, unlike the people who were involved in perpetrating these crimes, who have been questioned at the inquiry who all carry the themselves with a complete lack of dignity, compassion, truthfulness. I hope the cps engage and prosecute as many as they can. At the very least almost all of them have been involved in perverting the course of justice if nothing else. Indeed I can’t think of a single one I’ve heard being questioned (though I haven’t heard all)that didn’t clearly help pervert the course of justice.
What did she get paid for
The software was at fault.... Endof... Tony cuenca
Only thing she is upset about is being caught
Church of england?