Former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells quits boards of Morrisons and Dunelm


Former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells quits boards of Morrisons and Dunelm

Former Post Office chief executive Paula Vennells (pictured) who was in charge during its appalling treatment of sub-postmasters has resigned her non-executive directorships of Morrisons and Dunelm. This was following the highly publicised case in the Court of Appeal which overturned thirty-nine convictions for theft, fraud and false accounting. The Court found that errors were caused by the Post Office’s bug-ridden Horizon accounting system, a fact vehemently denied at the time by the Post Office. The result was that a significant number of innocent individuals saw their reputations destroyed, lost their homes and suffered stress induced ill-health as a direct result of being forced to ‘repay’ monies they had never appropriated. Some were sentenced to serve prison terms, others faced bankruptcy and family breakdowns – whilst Post Office directors seemingly denied that the problems were caused by their own ineptitude.

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