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Post Office tried to ‘hush up’ case of worker who killed himself, inquiry hears
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Angela van den Bogerd, a former business improvement director at the state-owned body, was being questioned at the Horizon IT public inquiry on Friday about the case of Griffiths, who died in 2013 after financial shortfalls were found at his Post Office branch in Cheshire.
The inquiry heard that Griffiths and his mother had both written to the Post Office earlier in 2013 about the “severe pressure” and “worry” that he was experiencing due to the £39,000 shortfall, which he blamed on software errors.
The Post Office was also demanding Griffiths pay back £7,500 after an armed robbery at his branch for which he had been partly blamed because he had failed to follow certain security procedures, the inquiry heard.
Jason Beer KC, counsel to the inquiry, asked Van den Bogerd whether the Post Office was using the “drip feeding of money” to Griffiths’ widow “as a means of ensuring she keeps it [his case] hushed up”.
Edward Henry KC, representing a number of victims of the scandal, told Van den Bogerd that she must be “dishonest or grossly incompetent” to have not realised the significance of internal emails sent to her from 2010 to 2014 that said the IT system could be remotely accessed by Fujitsu, the Japanese IT company that developed it.
Sam Stein KC, barrister for a number of post office operatives, told her: “So despite the finding in the high court that basically you lied … you got your bonus?” “Yes.” she replied.
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