The former Post Office boss Paula Vennells refused to answer questions about the Horizon scandal after being seen in public for the first time since a television drama highlighting it aired.
Ms Vennells was seen out cycling on Sunday morning and asked whether she had knowingly lied to MPs amid mounting evidence of a cover-up.
Leaked recordings have suggested she knew about a “covert operations team” that could remotely access the Horizon system used by sub-postmasters that ultimately resulted in more than 900 wrongful convictions.
Channel 4 News filmed Ms Vennells as she left a church cemetery in cycling gear on Sunday morning and asked her whether she had anything to say, and whether she had “lied to MPs” and whether “there had been a cover-up”.
“There is a lot of evidence that there has been a cover-up – have you anything to say?” a journalist asked as she cycled away.
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29 Comments
She’ll now effectively a social leper… Nobody with any integrity of self worth would want anything to do with her. She’ll will never find peace on this earth.
She committed perjury and fraud and directly led to people taking their own lives… Prison is surely waiting for this dangerous vile woman.
She’s the very definition or a psychopath, one who belongs behind bars.
Should be in prison, the guilt on her face is all there to see.
Andrew Bridgen MP met with Michael and Susan Rudkin in 2010.
By 2014, I had clear evidence that the criminal convictions of the sub- postmasters for fraud were 'unsafe'. The Post Office and the Government were made fully aware of this. Yet, shockingly, nothing was done to rectify the clear and huge miscarriage of justice. "I spoke to all the major media outlets. I briefed journalists at the BBC, Sky News, Channel 4 and ITV as well as all the national newspapers that I had all the proof that the Horizon scandal was the biggest miscarriage of justice in UK history. Journalists were keen and excited, but none were allowed by their editors or executives above them to run the story.
Well done to ch4 for finding her no one else has
She needs to face trial for what she did if guilty she should be locked up.
If they are stupid enough to conscript us on the far-right, we know where she lives.
Pure filth…
Due to anti hate laws in Scotland, I am unable to comment.
Czuje się pewna siebie
Ma kasę na dobrych prawników
Jezeli to nazywacie demokracją to ja dziekuje
Teraz zrozumiałem dlaczego przywódcy niktorych krajów naśmiewają się z waszej demokracji
Prawo jest dla bogatych którzy sie śmieją z biedoty
Widzicie ludzie z nią rozmawiają modlą się
Do jakiego boga?
A sasiedzi są szczesliwi z takiej sąsiadki
Moze dala na renowacje kosciola?
Co za wstyd!
Juz nie mogę tego oglądać!!
God might forgive her but the British public certainly will not …
Probably all smug feeling she was top dog at the Post Office with power and lots of money. Now her name will forever be linked to the pure evil she's heaped on those poor Postmasters and their families.
I couldn't think of anything worse than leaving this life knowing i had done so much harm.
they let u bike to jail now?
Not quite sure what the journalist aimed to achieve.
Not looking quite so cocky and arrogant now is she?!!
Nice bike 😊
Horrible femsle.
Enjoying her last few days of freedom………
Why has she not been changed with malicious prosecution of post office sub postmaster’s
A total sh*thouse.
Interesting that she used to be achurch of Englad priest.
The nearest vilest cyclist to Jeremy vile
Human trauma is a significant and appalling factor in all related cases, it seems. Never to be forgotten.
Tread carefully here otherwise the lady will escape.
Yes, she did.
Post Office ltd was able to be Judge, Jury and Executioner. Paula Vennells and all of the senior Executives, Post Office, Fujitsu and MP's/Ministers in the know HAVE TO GO TO PRISON for the damage done to innocent peoples lives and the lives that are sadly lost. How does Paula Vennells sleep at night!
This is a perfect example that "POWER CORRUPTS AND ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY"
This woman will crack to get her off the hook.
I think she knows that she is at risk of imprisonment and hopes that silence is her best option. I'm sure that's what her lawyers will have told her. She won't have the same luck with Jason Beer KC.