Alan Bates told reporters outside the court that the former Post Office chief executive’s apologies, in which he was included, “was just words”.
Many people perished in debt, attempting in vain to clear their names. Some ended their own lives.
Ms Vennells, who was CEO from 2012 to 2019, stated that her main flaw was that she was “too trusting” of individuals who worked with her, maintaining that their responses to her queries led her own management of the accounting software crisis.
However, it became clear throughout the hearing on Wednesday that her story of occurred.