PO Horizon IT Inquiry ex-Boss back giving evidence – day two
PO Horizon IT Inquiry ex-Boss back giving evidence
Bogerd : admits payout depended on dropping claims
Van den Bogerd questioned on email sent by Alan Bates.
Angela van den Bogerd is an ex senior director in the Post Office, gives evidence for a second day at the inquiry.
Van den Bogerd began her evidence on Thursday with an apology. She said she was “truly sorry” for the devastation caused to wrongly-convicted sub-postmasters.
Angela also said executives did not “cover up” knowledge. And that the computers of sub-postmasters accessed remotely.
Van den Bogerd worked for the Post Office from 1985 – 2020. Angela personally handled many sub-postmasters’ complaints about the Horizon IT system.
Between 1999 and 2015, more than 900 sub-postmasters were prosecuted because issues with Horizon made it look like money was missing from branches.
Counsel to the inquiry, Jason Beer, starts off by asking Angela van den Bogerd about Martin Griffith. A sub-postmaster of 18 years at Hope Farm, in Cheshire, who the Post Office accused of stealing £100,000.
He died by suicide in 2013.
Beer says Griffiths’ parents used life savings to balance the books.
The former sub-postmasters in the room today shake their heads. One whispers “disgusting”. There are a lot of them,
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