Moment Post Office scandal victims groan as shamed Paula Vennells claims she ‘can’t remember’ if she took PR advice not to review a decade’s worth of wrongful convictions [Video]

This is the moment Post Office scandal victims groan as Paula Vennells claims she ‘can’t remember’ if she took PR advice not to review a decade’s worth of wrongful convictions. 

The 65-year-old businesswoman drew audible gasps from the audience as she gave evidence at the Horizon IT Inquiry into why hundreds of branch managers were wrongly prosecuted amid claims they stole from the business.

More than 700 subpostmasters were prosecuted for theft by the Post Office and given criminal convictions between 1999 and 2015 as Fujitsu’s faulty IT system, known as Horizon, made it appear as though money was missing at their branches.

Ms Vennells, who was the chief executive from 2012 to 2019, told the inquiry she could not remember if she took advice from the Post Office’s PR supremo in 2013 that they should not review prosecutions from ‘five to 10 years’ ago. 

The inquiry chairman was forced …