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JAN MOIR: No photograph appears to exist of the occasion, but I like to believe the sun was shining on the joyful day in 2019 as Paula Vennells returned to Buckingham Palace to receive her CBE from the Queen. I like to believe that the former Post Office chief was wearing Aquascutum pleats, perhaps with a pussy-bow blouse in a co-ordinating shade, as well as a proud yet clumsy word. This would be a departure from her previous work as an Anglican priest at the Church of St Owen in Bromham, Bedfordshire, where she served as a non-stipendiary minister for many years. Yet how could she square her godly conscience with her award for services to the Post Office in light of the scandal of the Post Office workers who were jailed, humiliated, bankrupted and hounded for crimes they did not commit, much of it on her watch? The Post Office wrongfully sued more than 700 subpostmasters and submistresses for fraud, manipulation, and false accounting between 1999 and 2015 based on information obtained from a Fujitsu computer system called Horizon.

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