King strips CBE from former Post Office boss Paula Vennells

Source: PA Media

King strips CBE from former Post Office boss Paula Vennells

PA Media
Fri 23 Feb 2024 17.22 GMT
Last modified on Fri 23 Feb 2024 18.27 GMT

The former Post Office boss Paula Vennells has forfeited her CBE for “bringing the honours system into disrepute” over her handling of the Horizon crisis.

Vennells was named on Friday in a list published on the Cabinet Office website as an individual whose honour had been revoked by King Charles.

Issuing an apology last month, Vennells announced that she planned to hand back her CBE “with immediate effect” after a fresh fallout over the Horizon IT scandal, which led to the wrongful prosecution of hundreds of post office operators.

Vennells, 65, who ran the Post Office while it routinely denied there was a problem with its Horizon IT system, was made a CBE in December 2018, the year after hundreds of post office operators had launched legal action against their convictions.

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