PAULA Vennells has admitted she could have prevented a "lost decade" of injustice against sub-postmasters but failed to do so.
The ex-Post Office boss claimed she could not remember whether her reason for dropping a review of prosecutions in 2013 was to avoid it becoming "front-page news".
However, she admitted it would have been "grossly improper" to have done so for such a reason.
The Horizon IT inquiry was shown an email to Ms Vennells from the Post Office's communications director Mark Davies in July 2013 discussing a potential review of cases going back five to 10 years.
The email said: "If we say publicly that we will look at past cases whether from recent history or going further back, we will open this up very significantly, into front-page news. In media terms it becomes mainstream, very high profile."
Ms Vennells replied: "You are right to call this out. I will take your steer."
Sub-postmasters at the inquiry groaned out loud as Ms Vennells was asked if she took the decision to drop the review on the "advice of the PR guy" and said: "I don't remember".
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