Paula Vennells was done the other week, the Post Office Inquiry is now questioning associates and others - thread 3

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A continuation of this thread:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5081592-paula-vennels-being-questioned-at-the-post-office-inquiry-followed-by-others-thread-2

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

Present; is for someone who is a board director (or company secretary)

In attendance: someone who is not a board member so doesn't get to vote/participate in board decisions (eg an external adviser or more junior management wheeled in to present etc)

Me too, was expecting him to get a call saying daddy is running amok in a toy shop!

ps love count Arthur!

Thanks very much TheWayOfTheWorld for the explanation.

Wouldn't a user error like that appear on the SPM's (equivalent of a) till roll? So that when they came to spread long strips of paper out over their rooms in the stilly watches of the night, it would be possible to find the error?

The reports available for subpostmasters weren't good enough to allow them to track down problems. The kind of detail needed for that was held at Fujitsu and couldn't be accessed by subpostmasters.

Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse...

Post Office betrays postmasters yet again: Fury as bungling Post Office publishes names and addresses of nearly 600 people wrongfully convicted in the Horizon scandal on its website in 'horrific' potential data breach | Daily Mail Online

@prh47bridge Thank you for that link. That's horrendous.

This latest data breach is just staggering. It’s almost unbelievable. The utter incompetence that’s still being exposed is astonishing.

Who are these people currently in charge of this organisation that have taken over from the last administration that was beyond contempt?

The ineptitude is beyond comprehension. And these people are paid salaries to display their incompetence publicly.

Well, I was completely wrong to why they have brought back Graham Ward, but this is drama.

It's like Perry Mason.......

This is suspenseful work from Mr Beer!

He did delete it!

He completely denied deleting the sentence and said he "wasn't that type of person".
Turns out he is that type of person.

Tut tut tut.

The joys of tracked changes.

"Well I deleted the 3rd explanation but it was not my intent to remove it"

?????? - yeah that makes sense????

Aah, so Graham Ward altered Gareth Jenkins's statement in 2006, potentially to a substantive degree? Including deleting the words of Jenkins about 'system failure - such failures are normal occurrences'.

Ward: 'I was just trying to help'.

Ward: 'I can see that I deleted it, yes.'

Ward previously denied doing this, on oath, to the Inquiry.

This is why Graham Ward is back.

Mr Beer going into motive.

Oh great, he's back. I'll tune in

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

This is dynamite

This guy needs to pack his bag for The Big House

Boom 💥

He currently works for the Metropolitan Police

(Probably not as a police officer, but support staff)

Hopefully he is nowhere near taking statements or typing them up.

When with the Post Office, Graham Ward, a former security team casework manager and financial investigator.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/post-office-metropolitan-police-beer-horizon-government-b1136464.html

Yip.

Damn. This sounds compelling, but RL is definitely getting in my way today. I’ll have to catch up later.

Everything is just a "poor choice of words".

This is the new "I can't recall"

Ward: 'It's such a long time ago'

Beer: suggests a cover-up of system failure during a criminal prosecution

Ward: 'Nah I don't agree'

Ward gets caught out in a follow-up email now.

Motive for deletion - Ward says in it that the line about system failure is 'potentially very damaging'.

Ward gibbers about context.

Ward is toast