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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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Peter Ruddick We're now going to be pausing our live coverage of the Post Office inquiry. Thanks for joining us.
Business reporter You can read our write-up of today's hearing here.
We expected this to be a difficult day of questioning for Angela van den Bogerd, who was a senior director in the Post Office, and so it proved. We'll be back tomorrow when Angela van den Bogerd gives evidence for a second day.
In between the "I don't recall" statements there were some key revelations:
When it comes to remote access of the Horizon IT system, a key email was missed in 2010. That led to a litany of misleading or incorrect statements, to sub-postmasters, the media and, arguably, the High Court
Despite being aware of "rumblings" of complaints, van den Bogerd claimed she had no proper knowledge of Horizon "bugs" until 2013. She did admit it looked like the Post Office had been trying to "control the narrative" by not using the word "bug"
She expressed disbelief at a new document for the inquiry suggesting a Post Office strategy to replace forensic accountancy firm Second Sight, who exposed bugs in its IT system, with an internal process
At a couple of points today, Jason Beer KC, counsel to the inquiry, seemed incredulous at the repeated claim that she was "not involved" in various areas. He even asked: "Can you tell us what you did do?"
Things are only likely to get tougher tomorrow when lawyers for the sub-postmasters themselves get to ask questions.
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