Disgraced Paula Vennells drank champagne after learning of CBE for Post Office work
Giving proof to the inquiry final week, Mr Davies accepted that in July 2013, he had suggested Ms Vennells to not apologise to sub-postmasters.
Writing in his witness assertion, the communications skilled, who left the Post Office in 2019, stated: “Because I did not have access to all the facts, I clearly played a part in prolonging the pain and injustice for those innocent people who were wrongly accused or whose convictions were unsafe. I am deeply sorry for that.”
Mr Davies declined to offer a response to The Telegraph’s request for remark.
Horizon sufferer Seema Misra, who was eight weeks pregnant when she was handed a 15-month sentence in November 2010 after pleading responsible to false accounting and being convicted of theft by a jury, stated the emails had been additional proof that Ms Vennells ought to have by no means accepted her CBE within the first place.
Mrs Misra, who started working a department in West Byfleet, Surrey, in 2005 and was prosecuted over an alleged shortfall of £74,000 informed The Telegraph: “At this time, she was the goodie and I used to be the baddie within the media and in all places on the time.
“It’s not moral in any respect. At a time when sub-postmasters like myself had been struggling, the individuals who put us in all of this mess had been celebrating.”
Mrs Misra added: “She knew she was in the wrong then and she shouldn’t have accepted that CBE.”
‘Disturbing’ case recordsdata
Earlier this week, it emerged that Ms Vennells had described the instances of a number of Post Office prosecutions as “disturbing” greater than a yr earlier than the enterprise stopped pursuing sub-postmasters within the courts.
After being despatched the case recordsdata of eight sub-postmasters by accountancy agency Second Sight, Ms Vennells wrote to Ron Warmington, its director: “I have just read through the attachments. Apart from finding them very disturbing [I defy anyone not to], I am now even better informed.”
In the e-mail obtained by ITV News, Ms Vennells added: “I take this very seriously.”
Nadhim Zahawi, the Conservative MP, informed the broadcaster that he believed the e-mail would “come to be seen as the smoking gun that is the cover-up that has taken place at the Post Office”.
