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Post Office inquiry live updates: Angela van den Bogerd 'does not recall' being told IT firm could access accounts - BBC News Post Office inquiry live updates: Angela van den Bogerd 'does not recall' being told IT firm could access accounts - BBC News
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Beer highlights that Van den Borgerd had worked "closely" with the Post Office's IT specialist, Simon Baker, on the Second Sight project for around a year. Zoe Conway
Why did Baker hold the view that the focus was to bring things back under the Post Office's control and remove Second Sight without telling you about it, he asks? Employment correspondent, reporting from the inquiry
Van den Bogerd says she doesn't know, adding: "That's certainly not a conversation he had with me." Lead Counsel Jason Beer
Beer points out the Post Office did ultimately remove Second Sight. Was that unrelated to this plan described earlier, he asks. doesn't do sarcasm. His questioning is pretty straight.
"As far as I was concerned, yes," she replies. But this afternoon a
hint of mockery crept into his voice. Perhaps he couldn't help it.
''You
weren't close to many things,'' he put to Angela van den Bogerd as she yet again
explained how she wasn't involved in a key decision the Post Office made about
it's handling of the Horizon scandal.
''What were you doing at this time?'' he
asked her.
In the breaks, over cups
of tea, sub postmasters have been wondering aloud just how the woman they blame
for causing them so much suffering will be held to account.
She has been
accused by the inquiry of making false statements about her knowledge about the
remote access issue (how Fujitsu could access sub postmasters accounts without
their knowledge).
But Jason Beer is still building his argument. She is back on
the stand tomorrow when it could become much clearer how much responsibility
she bears for this scandal.
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