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I fail to understand how Ms Vennels can reconcile her Christian faith with her behaviour. Thou shall not bare false witness !!!!!!!!!

Post Office ltd was able to be Judge, Jury and Executioner. Paula Vennells and all of the senior Executives, Post Office, Fujitsu and Ministers in the know HAVE TO GO TO PRISON for the damage done to innocent peoples lives and the lives that are sadly lost. How does Paula Vennells sleep at night! This is a perfect example that "POWER CORRUPTS AND ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY"

Apologies don’t mean a thing she blatantly lied about these issues,and should be bought to justice

These apologies should be made from prison. They knew innocent people were being convicted. Unforgivable.

People died because of her lies. That she's not in a cell is pure insanity.

They all should be jailed.

A psychopath in a suit.

Vennells needs locking up NOW!

"Misleading" is one term, "brazenly lying" would be a more accurate one though.

Lock her up!

Emmm..how in the name.of god has Paula not been arrested?

How many years should that bag spend in prison? The sum of the sentences imposed on her victims.

Mislead? Why can’t you just say she lied?

It’s my belief that Vennels and her cohorts will never be brought to justice and if they are they’ll all get suspended sentences. Mark my words!

If innocent sub postmasters were sent to jail for doing nothing and the top bosses at royal mail new they were innocent they deserve to go to Jail....

It’s pretty obvious their main focus was to PROTECT the PO BRAND but instead they’ve RUINED both the Brand & innocent people. The cover up is staggering !

What will be a real miscarriage of justice will be if no one goes to prison for this.

If found guilty ...she should be jailed for 10 years....and have all her assets seized...!

She wrote this at the same time she wrote to Alan Bates telling him how disappointed she was that he was separately talking to ministers. What a calculating....individual...

She has to be jailed

Vennels is going to jail

She should be in custody already,, as should all of the politicians involved.

How to hold the elite and privileged accountable? It rarely if ever happens.

She knowingly sent them to prison. Her lies are responsible for these people lives. Only fitting she is also sent to prison. That would be true justice.

Jail time..

These people who lied should go to jail !!!

Once found guilty she should be put in prison for life. She destroyed so many lives and the buck has to stop with her

What a despicable, evil individual. She must be held accountable for her actions.

Paula and the other execs must be shtting themselves now waiting to appear before the comittee after these revelations, a small taste of hell that they put the subpostmasters through.

all the sub postmasters need to get together and file a class action lawsuit against the post office!

What isn't talked about enough is: why did the courts allow these prosecution to go through? Why did they automatically believe the Post Office and not do any checking of the credibility of their claims?

We dont want underling scapegoats in jail we want those responsible! Suicides and jail terms for innocent ppl ? How about put guilty bosses in jail?

Why are you not going after Crozier as well, he is complicit being the CEO until 2012 and knew that horizon was faulty.

Time is ticking, why has Vennells not been arrested yet? Seems like she's being protected and we're still not getting the whole picture.

Pauls Vennels apologise? The best thing she can do is walk into Holloway Prison and stay there. Save a lot of legal costs.

To think she was a priest in the C of E while she was 'bearing false witness' and ruining peoples' lives and reputation.

how no one is going to jail for this utter madness is unreal

If I had lied to the Commons select committee I think I’d be prosecuted rather quickly. One law for me but not for thee!

What is striking is that she was an Anglican priest.

When is Vennells’ OBE awarded for service to the Post Office going to be stripped from her?

So why aren't Ed Davey and Jo Swinson sueing the Post Office? Or Kier Starmer or David Cameron for that matter? Surely being lied to by a big organisation to such an extent that it damages your political career necessitates legal action? Why so quiet? Because legal action would reveal even more horrors?

Re - misled.Should read lie and or perjury.

She didn’t mislead Alan Bates……makes you wonder what sort of calibre our MP’s are.

Pay the compensation, fast and in full !! How much is a ruined live ?

I am no fan of Jo Swinson, But she was lied to over this and Vennells should go to Gaol. David Davis a real MP and says it as it is. Vennels is a liar

aka Vennels LIED to Parliament.

Disgusting, people lost jobs, homes , lives and were also sent to prison, while she knew there was a problem with the software. She has to go on trial.

The fact that Vennells is STILL CEO is a slap in the face

The craziest things thing to me is while all this was going on someone decided it was a good idea to give her an OBE.

Not prosecuting those accountable and responsible for the miscarriage of justice and huge human trauma will damage trust and faith in the UK legal system for a generation, it seems.

Apologizes? Venalls needs to be prosecuted, her assets seized, her homes seized and all wrongly convicted sub postmasters should be compensated for their losses completely and given punitive damages as well.

Paula should be jailed for lying, considering the harm caused by the PO.

Now will we find out if there is one law for them and one law for us. Vennells must serve TIME. !!!

The bonuses, pension, assets etc that she’s got over the years from the post office should all be paid back. As for the millions of public money she insisted on spending defending her lies and prosecuting the innocent leading to deaths that she should do jail time for

20 yrs to get to the truth ! Its a disgrace !People died because of this .Time for justice for all who suffered .

What kind of a sociopath puts a company's reputation before real lives ? She needs locking away from the rest of us.

This is utterly, utterly disgusting, all involved should be prosecuted. Apologies aren’t anywhere near substantial for the damage caused.

The Post Office demanded money they were not entitled to. Why are they not being charged with theft?

She knowingly told blatant lies, and there are at least tens of others who were complicit in this stich-up, both corporate and political, it wouldn't surprise me. All need prison time.

The Reverend Venality, Church of England

Vennells gave back her OBE as if that's punishment enough. She and all these monsters should go to jail, They are dragging this out in the hopes people will move on. Arrest these people now. Tonight

Paula needs to be jailed for life, her assets need to be seized, sold and the proceeds distributed to her victims. In the taped phone calls SHE KNEW EVERYTHING, Post Office own lawyers warned her, she fired auditors who brought up the problems with the technology. Everything this woman did was deliberate, how much did she steal? Into the millions? What about the Post Office lawyers, how much did they steal? Also, where the heck was the Crown Attorneys? Post Office lawyers have admitted on tape they had NO EVIDENCE of theft by the sub-postmasters, YET, they were still threatened with pleas deals, jailed and forced to cash out their own pensions to pay for the what we now know FALSE SHORTFALLS? Were the Crown Attorneys paid off? The Crown is not there to prosecute, they are to assess evidence of potential wrongdoing, if it's there they prosecute. If it isn't they don't prosecute, so what gives here? This smells like everyone was getting bought off at the expense of decent, hard working everyday sub-postmasters.

I hope that prison beckons!

Mps do it all the time are we shocked

Prison, send her to prison

If they knew it’s criminal, if they didn’t know it’s worse

Stop calling it"The post office" and name the people!

I would not believe any one at the Post Office, to tell me the right time in a room full of clocks.

Jail her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

JAIL

How can it be ok for a company ie the post office to investigate a system that will be in their own interests to be found faultless and therefore find the post masters guilty,a criminal organisation investigating itself is totally absurd

Wow more talk about what we’ve known for months no action taken

I've been following this scandal in detail in 'Private Eye' for 12 years. Why haven't Government and Opposition Ministers? They have a whole office-full of staff to keep up with such things.

Talk talk talk, no action.

Fact she talked at my school is embrassing 😢😢😢😢

Time she and her ally’s had a legitimate criminal record. And a few years in jail and pay every penny she made is paid back.

JAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is that rarest of commodities in my country - actual, journalism.

Where did the money go? Somebody took it . Look at Fujitsu

Call it like it is P Vennells was lying not misleading people

I don’t think the people who were sent to prison, would call it misleading.

Since we now know some of the monies stolen from the Sub-Postmasters, through the errors created by the software were later assigned as profits to the company, and that some of those involved received bonus and performance payments. Those involved in particular all senior executives should have their personal finances investigated, to see if their motive was personal gain. In particular any trust funds for which they or their families are beneficiaries, especially where they are held in offshore accounts should be audited.

Lets be honest it wouldn't be difficult to fool Jo Swinson

She needs to be jailed. Plain and simple.

Apart from holding Vennells and her cronies accountable for this horrendous injustice...I mean thats a given...is anyone going to investigate Susan Crichton, the PO General Council, and what she meant in the recordings when she said "So it's how do we close down the MP's side of the process, and what would work for MP's? And what can we sell to MP's?" Because that sounds rather dodgy to me. Was she trying to find ways to influence or even bribe them to stop looking at the situation and if so, did any MP's actively turn a blind eye

Public disgust with this individual is palpable. The legal profeaaion had better get this hugely incompetent CEO and her accomplices imprisoned. Nothing less is acceptable.

Should be in jail

Send her to prison. Although i doubt we'll see justice.

Post office ministers are also ultimately responsible ,like a ships captain, and should resign .

Put all of them in jail

I got this funny hunch that Post office is NOT the only company with tbis "IT issue" Many if not All Retail companies are doing the same.

The thought of these people losing sleep over the suffering they allowed to happen to innocent people.discusting conduct.justice for these poor innocent individuals and those who took their own lives deserve such a lot

Why is this boss not in prison and awaiting trial, as she could do a runner, has the money gone abroad in an account for her.

If she doesn't go to prison, then there is no justice.

She been promised Welby job after he steps down government new

Former minister "yes I didn't do my due diligence but it wasn't me, it was her."

Note to other "journalists", look how much good proper journalism can do. Doffed hat to ITV, outstanding work, don't let up. Awards are required for the team involved.

I worked as a postman for 3 years and it's the most toxic work environment I've ever worked in. I left because of this.

ok but managing to out-wit Jo Swinson can't become the threshold for newsworthy

JD, this has descended into complete madness!! I almost vomited at your last example of what these creeps are doing and how society is completely supportive of their narcissism and power crazed abusive behaviour. You are fantastic for continuing to cover this.