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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jane Croft

UNCOVERED: Ex post office chair expresses sincere regret over horizon scandal - The Untold Story

Tim Parker pictured in a grey suit and white shirt with Paula Vennells dressed in a red jacket next to a red post office box outside a branch in Sussex
Tim Parker, the then Post Office chair, and Paula Vennells, then its CEO, at the opening of the Nyetimber branch in Sussex in 2016. Photograph: PA Images/Alamy

The former chair of the Post Office has expressed “sincere regret” for the state-owned body’s failings in the Horizon IT scandal and said it was a mistake not to show a key report on the problem to its board.

Tim Parker, who was chair of the Post Office between 2015 and 2022, told a judge-led public inquiry that he felt “deep sympathy” for the Post Office operatives affected by what MPs have described as one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in UK history.

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