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The former boss of the Post Office, Paula Vennells, is giving evidence at the public inquiry into the Horizon IT scandal.

It is a major investigation into how hundreds of sub-postmasters were wrongly prosecuted starting in 1999 after faulty software said money was missing from Post Office branch accounts.

Ms Vennells was chief executive from 2012 to 2019. During this time, sub-postmasters were still being prosecuted but the Post Office continued to deny the faulty Horizon software was to blame, despite mounting evidence of wrongful convictions. This will be the first time Ms Vennells has spoken publicly about what happened in almost a decade.

Julie Beisner's family ran the North Kilworth Branch of the Post Office from 1847, and she was forced to pay back money because of the faulty Horizon IT system.

Julie told Ady Dayman what she hopes to hear from Paula Vennells' evidence.