Sir Anthony Hooper said he made the point to Ms Vennells ‘over and over again’.
The chairman of the mediation scheme for people who believed they had been wrongly prosecuted by the Post Office repeatedly told Paula Vennells that cases against subpostmasters “didn’t make sense”, an inquiry has heard.
The inquiry heard an official from the Department for Business suggested the Government and the Post Office could “capitalise” on Sir Anthony’s “waning” faith in forensic investigators who found faults in the Horizon system. “And Tony Hooper has also decided to give Second Sight his idea of what the general framework paper should cover, so clearly his faith in Second Sight is waning.Addressing what he had told Ms Vennells about cases against subpostmasters, Sir Anthony said: “As I say in my witness statement, I tried to make it clear to Paula Vennells and to the chairman that the Post Office case didn’t make sense, and I felt that throughout and, no doubt, Second Sight did.
Sir Anthony said he made this point to former Post Office chief executive Ms Vennells and then-chairwoman Alice Perkins on multiple occasions.Sir Anthony said it was “ridiculous” to shut down the mediation scheme in 2015. He said: “As I remember, there were about four cases which had gone past the charge stage and were to go to trial, and I was obviously concerned, not really in my position as chairman, but simply as someone who wanted to make sure there were no wrongful convictions.
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