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Post Office inquiry live updates: Angela van den Bogerd 'does not recall' being told IT firm could alter accounts - BBC News Post Office inquiry live updates: Angela van den Bogerd 'does not recall' being told IT firm could alter accounts - BBC News
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Why was the onus on postmasters to prove their innocence, rather than the Post Office to prove their guilt, Beer asks. Earlier we heard the ex-senior Post Office director asked about whether she accepts, knowing what she knows now, that it's not possible to identify Horizon system errors from the logs alone.
"I think back then the assumption was that if there was a loss in the branch that it was the responsibility of the postmaster," she says. She accepted that, from a postmaster's perspective, they would not have known what to look for, and added that in 2004, she wouldn't have known either.
Beer notes that there is a lot of assuming going on. She said she relied on another team to provide the expertise, but conceded she didn't know if they were qualified to provide that expertise.
"Absolutely, I agree," van den Bogerd replies.
He asks why a multi-million pound company company would make assumptions when the postmaster contract sets out the terms of when postmasters needed to repay shortfalls.
She says that was the advice received from the legal team at Royal Mail.
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