Boos and groans as Paula Vennells ends three day grilling by sub-postmasters' lawyers | ITV News

There were more denials and more tears today from Paula Venel, the former postmaster, who gave evidence at the Horizon inquiry on the third and final day of the aggrieved sub

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, although her raw emotions paled into in insignificant, one said miss fennels and the other post office executives. She would never cry as much as her victims and their families, but Miss Venel admitted her own failings. I let these people down, he said, wait, the

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have waited years to see the former postmaster answer their questions, today will be their hardest day, Paula, and today came that moment when the

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who acting on her behalf had the turn to challenge Paula Venel.

There were so many forks in the road, but you always took the wrong path. You preach compassion, but you don't practice it. You've never had it. You are to blame, but you continue to live in a cloud of denial that persists even today because you have given 750-odd pages a cowardly and self-service account, right? I didn't know that no one told me I can't. Remember they didn't show me this. I trusted the

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. I tried. I tried to do this the best I could. I took it because I hope the investigation looked at all the questions I was asked.

I answered them honestly. No matter how hard, how embarrassing or how wrong I was at the time, I don't think I could have worked harder for this, you failed didn't you, you couldn't get into this, you couldn't ask the right questions. You couldn't be bothered. I loved the post office. I gave it to her. I worked as hard as I could to offer the best post office for the UK. What I didn't do is not recognize the power imbalance between the institution. and the guy and I let these people down Lee Carleton was portrayed in the ITV Post Office drama.

He was ordered to repay miscalculated losses from the faulty Horizon system. I tried to tell the court that he finally went bankrupt after the post office chased him for legal costs you did not instigate any investigation into why 321,000 of public money was used to crush and grind him. I agree with what you say. F being ground down was exactly what it felt like in that period of his life. I felt like all of this was impossible, it was something that they were willing to do anything or, in my opinion, to make sure that they made an example of me, no one should have to live in that fear of what the type of government possessed. companies can do him with absolutely unstoppable power in an email revealed by ITV News in 2013 Paula Venel said she found the deputy postmaster's stories very disturbing, but a year later she told colleagues that while watching television coverage of the scandal was more bored than outraged.

I have no excuse for what I wrote other than to say that I was under pressure and I think I was relieved that the show wasn't perhaps as bad or as hard-hitting as I expected. So it was and I am extremely sorry that former Deputy Postmaster Joe Hamilton was sitting in the front row of the inquiry today as Mr Ven's email from 2014 was read. The chief executive said Ms Hamilton lacked passion in Mr Ven's report. television. I deeply regret having done so. She was so rude to you in that email that they have struggled for decades to hear her apologize and she apologized numerous times over the last 3 days, but Paula Vel's evidence will also be remembered for her poor recall and apparent lack of knowledge about what she was doing. happening in your own company Ellie pit News at 10