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Post Office inquiry live: Angela van den Bogerd shown letter blaming PO for postmaster's death - BBC News Post Office inquiry live: Angela van den Bogerd shown letter blaming PO for postmaster's death - BBC News
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Questioning remains on the money that was given to Martin Griffiths's family, on the condition of keeping quiet about his death in 2013. Things are getting a bit technical now, so bear with us.
"[Confidentiality] was important for Rodric," Angela van den Bogerd says, adding that she wasn't involved in the initial settlement agreement. In her witness statement - which you can read here - Angela van den Bogerd says she didn't make a connection between the safety of ARQ and the convictions of sub-postmasters and postmistresses.
Rodric refers to Rodric Williams, a Post Office lawyer, who van den Bogerd say says was involved in Griffiths's wife, Gina, agreeing to "staged payments" in return for her "maintaining confidentiality". ARQ refers to an Audit Record Query - which is what Post Office managers asked Fujitsu for when resolving Horizon problems.
Pressed by Beer, she says it was Williams's idea to insist the Griffiths family wouldn't get any more money if they didn't keep quiet. Beer says Helen Rose was raising a broader issue that the ARQ data logs used in court by the Post Office to prosecute sub-postmasters didn't show the full or real picture. He goes on to ask if that didn't ring alarm bells, to which van den Bogerd says "not for me at the time".
At this point, inquiry chair Wyn Williams intervenes to clarify that it was Williams who wanted to include a clause to this effect. Van den Bogerd confirms that's what she means. She goes on, saying she expected Rose to "take this issue through her reporting line because this was outside my area of knowledge ... I wouldn't have had the knowledge to know what to do with it".
She says that she approved the clause Williams added because she was advised to, adding: "My concern at the time was to facilitating that payment to Gina. I felt that I had done as much as I could to help the family financially." "Are you saying that you need greater knowledge scope to realise it's a broader serious issue to present inaccurate information to a court?" Beer asks, to which the former Post Office director says.
It was the first time I was getting involved in this. I didn't have the broader view or knowledge. It was Helen's expertise."
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