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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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Jacqueline Howard More than 900 sub-postmasters were prosecuted for stealing because of incorrect information from a computer system called Horizon, in what has been called the UK's most widespread miscarriage of justice.
Reporting from the inquiry The Post Office itself took many cases to court, prosecuting 700 people between 1999 and 2015. Another 283 cases were brought by other bodies, including the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).
Edward Henry: "You were deliberately supressing the truth." Many went to prison for false accounting and theft. Many were financially ruined.
Angela van den Bogerd: "No I would never do that." In 2017, a group of 555 sub-postmasters took legal action against the Post Office. In 2019, it agreed to pay them £58m in compensation, but much of the money went on legal fees.
EH: "You were letting wrongful convictions stand." A draft report uncovered by the BBC shows the Post Office spent £100m fighting the group in court despite knowing its defence was untrue. The Post Office said it would be "inappropriate" to comment.
AVDB: "No." Although campaigners won the right for cases to be reconsidered, so far only 102 convictions had been overturned.
That's just a flavour of the back-and-forth between Henry and Van den Bogerd that went on for the better part of 15 minutes just before.
Henry, who represents a group of wrongfully convicted sub-postmasters and postmistresses, is throwing accusation after accusation at Van den Bogerd, who dismisses each one with a simple "no" or "I disagree" every time.
It's worth remembering Henry's just one lawyer, there are more in the room. How many will be given the chance to ask questions today is unclear but one thing's clear - it's going to long couple of hours for Van den Bogerd when we return from lunch.
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