Paula Vennels being questioned at the Post Office Inquiry, followed by others - thread 2

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A continuation of the discussion started by@Sausagenbaconhere:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5080262-to-enjoy-hearing-paula-vennels-being-taken-apart

Paula Vennells' 3 days of evidence ends today but there are more hearings coming up and we can discuss those too.

When the hearings are going on, live-streaming can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/@postofficehorizonitinquiry947/featured

All of the previous hearings can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/@postofficehorizonitinquiry947/videos

Funnily enough for all his grilling she is having a much easier ride with him - she knows how to handle him and gain a 'moral high ground', as incredible as that sounds.

She should have said "my approach to my work is that I feign memory impairment"

This important as the barrister Simon Clark wrote to PO telling them of problems with Jenkins. Vennels and all of the Lawyers denied seeing it.

It was delivered to Jarnail Singh's email account, downloaded to his hard disk and printed out 8 mins later. He still denied reading it....

She did well in the past to make sure she never received any of the key documents. There would have been a culture in Post Office, like in many places, that you don't land top management with long and difficult documents. Instead they get summaries, ideally in written form and written clearly. It looks like, for whatever reason, Vennells was receiving the vital summaries from those beneath her verbally.

Susan outside on the naughty step 🤣

I think this is a deliberate strategy. They know she's coming in with prepared answers, so let her speak and trot them all out. Eventually she will be left with nothing to say.

If you look back at 2 days with beer, she spoke a lot more confidently on day 1. By the end of day 2 she was very different.

That puts me in mind of a piece from the west wing along the lines of 'is there anything I should know Vs is there anything I need to know '

"It does not matter is something is true or false, all that matters is whether or not it is deniable".

Or words to that effect....attributable to one of Nixon's White House staff.

He's starting to ramp up for these last 20 mins

When will her waterworks come in for Mr Henry?

"You really had earned your keep. You kept the lid on it."

Omg "this conversation is a creation of yours"

My gosh. Hahaha

🤣🤣

SUSAN!!!!

Came across her in a corridor

Susan Crichton getting the blame again.

She'll be at the doctors with these many days of burning ears.

Flashbacks for Beer about the chair as he listens

How can you be "fairly clear in your recall of this" when you claim not to recall many things.

What an embarrassment

She's fairly clear in her recall for once

Sorry, joined late.

Is Mr Henry the barrister representing the sub postmasters/mistresses or does he come later?

Loving seeing Jo - can't recall her surname but she is the lovely ex postmistress who was convicted by this debacle and lost everything 😥 -
Sitting at the front giving PV the dead eye.

It's all Susan's fault etc.

"I'm sorry we haven't got more time to go through that as i read it this morning"

She's cunning!

I bet Susan's at home kicking the cat and mainlining gin.

There are a number of barristers representing different groups of subpostmasters JadeSeahorse. Also, there are also barristers who will ask questions who represent other groups who are not subpostmasters.

Insincere, cold - denying everything .. blaming everyone else..