Ms Vennells was 'unable to work with personalities who provide a robust challenge to her', a government document said a year before the Post Office stopped prosecuting sub-postmasters. During her evidence at the Horizon Inquiry Ms Vennells said she was 'too trusting' of those around her.
The government was considering getting rid of Post Office chief executive Paula Vennells, the inquiry into the Horizon scandal has heard. Ms Vennells was at the top of the government-owned company for 12 years, and CEO for seven, while the faulty Horizon accounting software was in operation. The Fujitsu-made IT programme incorrectly generated financial shortfalls and Horizon data was used to prosecute more than 700 sub-postmasters at Post Offices across the UK for theft and false accounting.
' The concern centred around the Post Office's financial performance but also the feeling that Ms Vennells was 'unable to work with personalities who provide a robust challenge to her' and did not show 'an understanding of political considerations'. When she was at the inquiry last month Ms Vennells was presented with evidence she knew, or should have known, about the miscarriage of justice.
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