Ex-boss appears at inquiry over UK’s “biggest miscarriage of justice”
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🗓️ 27 May 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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From the BBC World Service: Paula Vennells was CEO of the government-owned Post Office business from 2012 to 2019, when forensic accountants looked into claims that sub-postmasters had been wrongly prosecuted for errors caused by software. We hear some takeaways from her testimony. Then, the leaders of China, South Korea and Japan have vowed to speed up negotiations to reach a free trade deal. Also: What would persuade more of us to take up electric vehicles?
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| 0:40.0 | Listen now. The The extraordinary scandal at the UK's post office. |
| 0:54.3 | Live from the BBC World Service, this is the Marketplace Morning Report. |
| 0:57.9 | I'm Will Bain, great to have your company. |
| 1:00.1 | As always first thing in the morning. |
| 1:01.9 | It's been called the UK's most widespread |
| 1:03.5 | miscarriage of justice a faulty IT system that made it look like money was |
| 1:07.8 | going missing from post office branch accounts when in fact it wasn't. It sparked a |
| 1:12.4 | public inquiry and a television drama watched |
| 1:14.8 | by millions around the world. The former boss of the post office company Paul of |
| 1:18.7 | Enels has been giving evidence to that judge-led inquiry into what went wrong and the BBC's |
| 1:24.2 | Peter Ruddick's been following it. Peter thanks so much for being with us. |
| 1:26.9 | Okay so good to be here. This is a pretty extraordinary story for our |
| 1:31.0 | listeners what is this all about? this all goes back to the turn of the |
| 1:35.2 | millennium and a new computer system for post office balance sheets in the UK |
| 1:39.8 | called Horizon now this was installed in branches which are run as franchises by people called |
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