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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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Jacqueline Howard 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.
Reporting from the inquiry Griffiths died by suicide in 2013, after being accused of having a £100,000 shortfall in his accounts.
"The first thing was 'let's get a media lawyer'." 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).
That's what Jason Beer KC has just put to Angela van den Bogerd, suggesting this was the first priority of the Post Office after learning of fromer sub-postmaster Martin Griffiths's suicide attempt. 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.
Van den Bogerd doesn't dispute this - it's set out, in black and white, in an email chain she's looped in on. 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.
The former sub-postmasters in the room today, and there are a lot of them, are shaking their heads. One whispers "disgusting" under her breath. 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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