Ex-Post Office company secretary questioned over Horizon scandal

For years, she's remained silent over what she knew about the wrongful prosecution of subpostmasters.

But tomorrow, the former head of the Post Office, Paula Vennells, will break that silence when she appears at the Horizon IT inquiry.

Today, it was the turn of the company secretary, Alwen Lyons, who was at every board meeting - and party to many secrets after 34 years in an organisation that caused untold suffering for hundreds of subpostmasters.

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[gareth]

The disgusting thing is that nothing will happen, they are not sorry for what they did , only that they have been caught doing it

[karlyoung]

Every one of these Post Office people MUST GO TO PRISON!

[alansimmons]

posh and rich people don't go to prison even when they're obviously guilty. Prison is primarily reserved for poor people who cant afford good lawyers.

[kevinbultitude]

Prison for the criminal directors and managers!

[oomjeyj]

She should have all her bonuses confiscated under proceeds of crime and locked up

[bivlmfu]

The post office knew there was a problem but framed them the real crime.

[nancystewart]

These people did nothing wrong got jailed now the people involved in this scandal have done wrong so why not them

[drmahaCroc]

What I want to know why did these crooks send innocent people to prison.

[DIYTinkerer]

The whole board need to go to prison, if anyone else çaused this much suffering and lied, causing such a massive fraud, they would be in prison. Why are they still walking free? I'm disgusted by our government, who have always known but chose to do nothing.

[StrEetThief]

I still can't get over how somone like paula vennels gets to such a high position?

[therealuglytruth]

Good on that reporter for pressing for answers, should she give her OBE she go to

[rchlletters]

Decent, lawful people deserve proper restitution—with interest over time. In the US the damages for each case would be in the tens of millions.

[boondoggle]

She was happy to sit back and watch innocent people go to jail - now it is her turn behind bars. Her reputation (if she ever had one) is dashed to the ground and she will go to her grave knowing she was part of the worst crime in British history.

[sararichardson]

They (PO) thought they could get away with ruining people’s lives. Justice must be done.

[wgkhdbl]

Very, very poor effort from this witness. To say she didn’t know about prosecutions is ridiculous. Broke the world record for saying “ So “.

[boat]

Paula will be suffering amnesia just like the rest 🤔

[boat]

Thank you channel 4 for your continuing coverage of this terrible scandal 👍

[knicol]

All the directors and lawyers involved all have to be sent to prison for greater than the minimum sentence that was given to all the innnocent PO staff.

[grahamkearnon]

Where is the ex top lawyer, hiding overseas, drag her back, use the diplomatic tools in the box, the public is proper mad.

[jonnyhifi]

I do commend channel four for keeping on producing pieces on this - and this particular journalist who clearly, rightly feels angry like everyone else. They have broken new aspects of the story during the enquiry rather than just being lazy and reporting the enquiry albeit this piece doesn’t bring anything new to the table, other than give everyone the heads up to pay attention re vennels testimony tomorrow. Well done channel 4.