Alice Perkins picked apart by Edward Henry, Post Office Inquiry KC. 

This person is wildly unhelpful, arrogant, smug and combative, in spite of overwhelming evidence of, at best, breathtaking ineptitude.

She does not seem to recognise or show any remorse for the terrible suffering she has been responsible for.

She’s a liar and a delinquent. Got the job with zero experience of such a high position. A classic case of someone riding the gravy train all their working life , being over promoted well above her capabilities. Corrupt to the core and should go to prison for her sins

I have watched a lot of this enquiry and she is by far the most arrogant, nasty, entitled, unpleasant witness so far. And that takes some doing.

she is the most arrogant entitled witness yet - even worse than Vennells

Forgetting her documents speaks volumes.

Jo Hamilton sits there, so calm but staring these bloody liars out...

I don’t care if you find things offensive! I find it offensive that you don’t care about the lies you and your whole team have perpetuated! You wouldn’t know the truth if it hit you in the face - oops, it is now! 🤦‍♂️

How could she “forget” key documents, that were of clear importance. Her air of pompousness and the “I’m better than you” attitude was utterly astounding. “We’ve talked about it, I’m not willing to discuss it further” I just can’t believe her attitude to the whole situation, if she carried on in a court like that, surely been given a warning.

She is NOT Miss Perkins, she is Mrs Jack Straw! "Fancy a job running the Post Office?" "I don't know anything about the Post Office." "Doesn't matter, turn up two days a week, drink tea and eat biscuits, pick up your salary and bonus, and come home!"

Morally bankrupt Alice Perkins is a woman of straw.

She is revolting

She really is the most unpleasant, pompous, and obnoxious person to have appeared at this hearing

She is prevaricating and unbelievable as a witness, and shows no sympathy for the horrendous way that Post Office victims were treated. I sat and wept with a friend, who lost her job and was prosecuted when she had done nothing wrong. She is a single mother with a teenage daughter, who struggled to provide for themselves. Her daughter had to work at weekends to help them survive.

Love Edward ‘ Rottweiler’ Henry. Jason Beer opens the gates, and lets out the hound.

Ms Perkins seems to have been well coached by her ex solicitor and ex MP and ex minister no less , but Mr Edward Henry KC exposed her shortcomings in her stewardship of the disgraced POL.

She’s riddled with contempt for all in front of her ….odious

OMG this is the biggest case of arse covering i have ever seen . Which is polite words for LYING COW.

My pal was working for James Arbuthnot during all of this. She says that they (all of POL) sat across the desk, looked us in the eye and LIED

She is intelligent, smart and confident in her position and able to stand her ground. What is so sad and shocking is her intransigence in failing to take any responsibility for what happened to the postmasters as a direct impact of the board’s actions. She does seem to be not affected by the impact of the actions of the board and its ramifications on the real lives of the postmasters.

Husband is a war criminal, she's a post office criminal. Son caught drug dealing. What a family.

Of course she's offended, she's highly offensive.

Just think about this - She is a consultant and lecturer on corporate governance. Does she show her clients how to set their businesses up so they end up with a liability close to the thick end of HALF A BILLION POUNDS and the possibility of doing time for perverting the course of justice? She took the cash, she needs to do some time.

No doubt we’ll soon see Peter Gabriel suing senior Post Office people, for repeatedly using the lyrics from his 1980s song “I don’t remember, I don’t recall, I don’t know anything at all” without paying him a penny in royalties

She blames the lack of expertise on the board. However she picked the non executive members and chose not to have anyone expert on software, and remarkably, no lawyers to advise the board on one of the most complex and extensive computer systems and extensive civil and criminal litigation.

Wicked, Wicked woman....😮😮😮😮

Yet another privileged and arrogant PO manager that is Cleary complicit in withholding critical information that prolonged the suffering of the SPM. I am convinced that this miscarriage of justice should warrant a criminal case and certainly hope that both financial and custodial penalties are eventually given.

She knew or knows more than people think... Are you telling me she knew little... Does that mean she walked about with a sack over her head whilst at PO. One gets the clear impression she's sweeping actions under the rug.

Forgot the hard copy? What a lightweight ‘executive’! Incompetent and hopefully not getting her pension for being so.

This lady will not enjoy a women's prison one little bit with her attitude.

Christopher Columbus, how do people like this get so many top jobs? Got to be who they know, not what they are capable of? I sincerely hope that justice is served against those responsible for the misery they have caused!

Jack Straw her husband caught out on camera asking for cash for collections by undercover reporters.

Sadly she seems a little smarter than him. She's also better at deflecting and filibustering. Horrible woman.

Ron Warrington blew her testimony clean out of the water with his evidence today !

Quite clearly this witness resents being questioned and being asked or told to account for herself.

the post office is really a collection of little shops each run with its own manager and a few staff ! my question is why does it need a board, of upper crust useless toffs, a whole bunch of super paid staff, a legal team, solicitors and hench men ?

I love the way Jo Hamilton always looks the wicked POL witness in the face.

when she said a group of people who had good values I almost choked with my coffee.

"I am not saying that I didn't see it and we discussed this yesterday" That is about as helpful as she got.

Go Mr Henry go get her told she is only truthful when she is Asleep Look who she is married to another untruthful person they will rub off together Mr Straw

Well she has admitted that she did not read the Deloitte report. Total negligence.

Super injunction for reporting her son caught selling drugs - now CEO for the King's trust.

Neglects hard copy speaks volumes has too her integrity 🤔

"I am a truthful person". Sure you are, Mrs. Straw. She doesn't seem to have anything useful to offer a business (can't figure anything out, flakey memory, etc) . Lucky she had a high-profile husband.

Dreadful woman who was paid loads of our money and flittered about being the big I AM but doing nothing.

The major problem is that to fully understand what is actually happening in this inquiry you need to watch all of the inquiry to be able to detect the threads that make up this tangled web of lies. In some cases, you need to watch a person's testimony several, or more, times to really get to the scope and range that the questioners questions are actually reaching and revealing. People like Jarnail Singh is a perfect example, you need to have watched all the times he has testified, twice in 2023 and his latest debacle in 2024 to see how corrupted a person he actually is. Then when you hear his name being used by his partners in crime you will see how deep the rot went. Your average person doesn't have the time to do this or more likely the stomach to listen to these appalling individuals more than once. If at the end of this inquiry nobody is charged and given their much-deserved day in court this will have been an enormous waste of public money. I am not holding my breath on any court cases other than for the POL's chosen sacrificial offering, Gareth Jenkins, ever happening.

The arrogance of that woman 😡

An utterly revolting obnoxious witness. I hope the inquiry sees through it. She forgot the documents... I guess that is how she ran the post office.

Funny how she remembers things with absolute clarity (like the non-executive’s breakfast) Liars, all of them!

I bet she can remember all the bonus payments she received over the years

Now,it's difficult to like or respect this witness.

She opens her mouth...and lies!

She will be safely found "not fit to stand trial" when the CPS finally get around to charging anyone. She will be practising her; "Who am I again, I can't remember ?" in front of the bathroom mirror every morning, from now on.

Jo Hamilton's face says it all

Just another example of people with great responsibility and pay saying they had no responsibility but took the pay. We knew nothing and took no interest in the major goings on in the business we left that to everyone else on lower pay to take that responsibility. People at the top need to start going to prison they got paid the money and need to take responsibility. Unless this happens people at the top will continue to allow criminal behaviour as long as they think it can be denied later

This interrogator needs to dig in. All this is too polite. 4 people died. Leaders pretend they are all innocent. Get in there!

When people tell you as she did “I am an honest person”, sure sign of someone lying. Honest people don’t tell you they are honest.

She is culpable like the rest of them .

Oh my word, the flotation just happened to be running alongside this period of deliberate obfuscation!

Paula Vennels talked about an inbalance of power and here is a clear example.

Cant wait till shes in an actual court. Her self serving answer wont be allowed to go on and on. Keep her to yes no answers.

I guess Susan knew too much. Susan picked second sight to get to the bottom of it all. So, out of the building, out of the meetings..?

I've been watching clips from several of the inquiry's testimonies, and her lies make me the most angry.

Jo Hamilton. If looks could kill!

Considering the abandonment, exclusion, hounding, and undeserved vilification SPMRs and their immediate families were subjected to, I would certainly not want to speak to, associate with, or otherwise engage with any of these current or former PO ‘senior persons’. I would not want to be associated with them in any way, shape, or form… despicable creatures 😔

This is all so boring for her. She didnt know what happened to post office after she left. This woman is a bully, liar and is responsible for all during her tenure

Alice perkins......should read 'ALICE IN WONDERLAND' !

Obviously coached !

She should be sent to a court of law for gross negligence in her position.

At least she has shown us she needs to go to jail.

What a piece of work!

Mrs Jack Straw? the Labour politician's wife!? Surely not.🤔🙄

She can’t explain why Susan must be gone before the next meeting. Just waffles on hoping people will drift off.

Another Academy Award performance of goody-two-shoes Alice Perkins. She knew very well what she was doing and damn the consequences to the subpostmasters.

How convenient, any awkward questions about what was said or written and they cant remember or recall it.

These are the kind of people our parents warned us about and never get involved with as they will stab you in the back when it was them that robbed the bank.

What an awful women-worse than Vennells!

She was basically careful not to remember anything incriminating but the written evidence itself is incriminating, with or without her memory.

A crumbling witness in the face of intense scrutiny .The arrogance is breathtaking .

It's amazing how calm and collected she is and so well trained to feign off any question... these people were paid so much and did an easy job of filling their pockets

“I don’t want bad news that is not properly evidenced”. Sounds perfectly reasonable until you realise the ethical responsibility of the board. Perkins’ sickly sweet voice hides her absence of acknowledgement of her immense responsibility for this cruel debacle.

ha ha ha - 'we wanted to wait until the person who had the most insight to give us about how we crapped things up was gone - before we looked at lessons learned.' THIS DOES NOT HAPPEN! You need them there to talk about how they contributed to getting things wrong. It would be like doing a review of Horizon and the PO by waiting until they all died and then we started to investigate.

There are many statute laws, particularly in finance acts, the words “ought to know”. These executives denying knowledge Ought to have Known. That means they MUST inquire of the facts from their subordinates as they are responsible for any misdemeanours. Ignorance of facts is not acceptable.

I am on oath and I am a truthful person

Well done Mr Henry, you did not succumb to her 'intentional' mind games. She was made to look very insincere & dishonest.

Accumulating all that evidence must have been a bloody nightmare

Cruella De Ville personified

This is the kind of KC id like to see questioning and cross examining greedy and manipulative Freeholders responsible for the National Leasehold Scandal

Al Pacino. Scent of a Woman As I came in here today, I heard these words "cradle of leadership". Well when the bough breaks, the cradle will fall. And it has fallen here today; it has fallen. Makers of men, creators of leaders; be careful what kind of leaders you are producing here. I don't know if Charlie's silence is right or wrong. I am not a judge or jury. But I can tell you this; he won't sell anybody out to buy his future. That's called integrity. That's called courage. Now that's the stuff leaders should be made of."

If this goes to civil litigation then her excuses about not understanding or not reading wont wash. Her position as chair will hold her responsble. Hope shes bankrupted.

Having watched this and the performance of the other women in this situation, one feels that they have put women back to the dark ages. Literally an embarrassment to any woman in business. We simply don't behave like this....... One can see why thhey got into this mess ...... They haven't got a clue how to be "good" People

If the board had no interest in the sub Post Masters then did they have any interest in the rest of the business besides their pay packages.

Not one of those at the top seemed to be doing the job that they were paid for in a princely sum by the post office. Scandalous and unethical. The poor sub postmasters had no chance against an evil person like her. How Sir Alan Bates managed to persevere for so long and how difficult it must have been for him is indescribable. To think that the Post Office Lawyers threatened to Bankrupt the Forensic Insurance Company who had spotted the fraud if they released the report that the Post Office theirselves had commissioned them to do the report from the start. Fraud and falsifying the accounts as well as lying on oath should just be the start with charging them in the high Court. But being the wife of a MP she will get away with it no doubt.

Everybody knew apart from the post office. Its not an excuse no to know you should have know. Everyone knew. It was obvious to me the moment you have a new computer system and then have people saying it has no bugs. All new computer systems have bugs. All of them

Jo Hamilton’s stare at AP when she answers questions says it all.

It just shows class isn't related to wealth. Her sense of right and wrong belongs in the gutter.

💕Love Jo Hamiltons face, you go girl make the liars squirm!

She should stick with local coffee mornings.

Arrogant and is sure she has nothing to worry about. Hope she gets severly criticized in the Enquiry Report but I fear she has influence in the " establishment ". How much outside influence will feed into the final Report ? There's a lot riding on it to satisfy public disgust.

Another corrupt individual