OPINION - The Standard View: Post Office Horizon scandal — now shame the guilty
The Post Office scandal which devastated the lives of hundreds of innocent sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses has revealed quite a lot about the way the establishment operates. Paula Vennells, the former Post Office boss who presided over the miscarriage of justice, has handed back her CBE. It leaves unanswered the question of why she got it in the first place — not only on account of the Horizon IT scandal but the continuing demoralisation of a once great institution on her watch.