The erstwhile Post Office IT main has insisted helium volition springiness grounds implicit the subpostmaster ungraded aft the Horizon enquiry was told helium could not beryllium found.
Mike Young accused erstwhile Post Office brag Paula Vennells of trying to enactment the blasted for the wrongful convictions of subpostmasters implicit missing wealth connected the faulty Horizon IT system.
Mr Young was successful complaint of machine systems for the Post Office betwixt 2008 and 2012, erstwhile galore postmasters were wrongly accused of stealing.
Ms Vennells, 65, past week said the IT brag was 1 of the 5 radical liable for the ungraded while giving grounds astatine the Horizon IT inquiry.
Mr Young told The Mirror: 'Paula needs an out. She's utilizing maine and 4 others. Hey, she's got to bash what she thinks is close for her.'
Mike Young was successful complaint of machine systems for the Post Office betwixt 2008 and 2012
Former Post Office brag Paula Vennells said the IT brag was 1 of the 5 radical liable for the scandal
Ms Vennells arriving astatine the Horizon IT enquiry astatine Aldwych House connected May 24
He added: 'She was the CEO.' He added: 'I don't carnivore immoderate work for the Post Office scandal.'
Activist subpostmaster Alan Bates past nighttime said helium was disappointed by Mr Young's comments, adding: 'They are each passing the buck.'
Chair Sir Wyn Williams said the enquiry had been 'unable to trace' Mr Young. Ms Vennells said she does not 'know what he's doing now'.
Mr Young has reportedly been moving for a probe task funded by the payer and tally by the University of Exeter's concern school.
He added: 'I've spoken to the enquiry good earlier past week. The backmost bureau doesn't cognize what the beforehand bureau has done. I've reached out.
'They reached retired to maine connected the 2nd of April, I replied connected the 2nd of April.'
It comes arsenic Ms Vennells cried again past week portion giving grounds astatine the Horizon IT inquiry aft insisting that she 'loved' the company.
The shamed erstwhile CEO told the proceeding successful London that determination are 'no words' that volition marque the 'sorrow and what radical person gone done immoderate better'.
Activist subpostmaster Alan Bates past nighttime said helium was disappointed by Mr Young's comments
Ms Vennells arriving astatine the Horizon IT enquiry astatine Aldwych House connected May 24
Ms Vennells - who insisted she 'worked arsenic hard arsenic I perchance could' - broke down successful tears, aft doing the aforesaid connected the archetypal time of her evidence.
She became affectional arsenic she told the inquiry: 'I loved the Post Office, I gave it… I worked arsenic hard arsenic I perchance could to present the champion Post Office for the UK.
'What I failed to bash was I failed to recognise … the imbalance of powerfulness betwixt the instauration and the individual. I fto these radical down - I americium precise alert of that.'
Ms Vennells was accused of being successful 'la-la land' and liable for her ain downfall during questioning by Edward Henry KC, a lawyer representing subpostmasters.
She added that she mislaid each employment aft the Court of Appeal passed a judgement which yet led to a fig of subpostmaster convictions being overturned.
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