Forensic accountant Ian Henderson told the inquiry: 'Paula Vennells frequently and consistently attempted to steer Second Sight away from investigating potential miscarriages of justice.'
Forensic accountant Ian Henderson said his work was being 'sabotaged'. He expressed concerns that Post Office bosses were involved in a cover upShamed former Post Office boss Paula Vennells ‘frequently and consistently attempted to steer’ investigators away from uncovering potential miscarriages of justice, a computer expert hired to scrutinise its doomed Horizon IT system said.
Prosecutions continued to happen under the watch of disgraced chief executive Ms Vennells, despite repeatedly being told there were concerns about the reliability of the evidence used to take innocent workers to court. In his witness statement, he said: ‘Paula Vennells frequently and consistently attempted to steer Second Sight away from investigating potential miscarriages of justice.
Read MoreBREAKING NEWS Post Office hero Alan Bates honoured with knighthood after exposing Horizon IT scandal Mr Henderson, whose parents ran a rural Post Office, added that by summer 2013, he came to the view that Horizon ‘was not the robust, error-free system claimed by Post Office’. Second Sight was sacked by the Post Office in 2015, but not before uncovering a slew of system flaws and identifying that prosecutions appeared to be motivated by recovering losses. Its second interim report was never published.
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