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Post Office inquiry live updates: Angela van den Bogerd giving evidence for second day - BBC News | Post Office inquiry live updates: Angela van den Bogerd giving evidence for second day - BBC News |
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Beer and van den Bogerd are still talking about an email sent by former sub-postmaster Martin Griffiths's daughter, Lauren, in which she blames the Post Office for her father's death. | |
Griffiths died by suicide in 2013, after being accused of having a £100,000 shortfall in his accounts. | |
Beer asks why £140,000 was determined the appropriate figure to offer Griffiths' family in the wake of his death (there's more detail on that in our last post). | |
Van den Bogerd says Griffiths had registered his interest for the payment prior to his death, and that it was not intended to be a payment for his loss of life. She goes on to say she met Lauren, Griffiths's wife Gina and his mother following his death - and that she offered to give as much support as she could. | |
She says she was concerned about the financial pressure on the family, and she was trying to facilitate a way for that payment to be made. She also says the payment was subject to a non-disclosure agreement. | |
Beer puts it to van den Bogerd that Griffiths's family had a live claim with independent investigators Second Sight, and asks if this would be on condition of dropping it, to which she says "that was the broader piece" of the so-called network transformation payment. | |
"That's just word soup", Beer responds. | |
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