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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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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. Jacqueline Howard
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). Reporting from the inquiry
Many went to prison for false accounting and theft. Many were financially ruined.
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. Jo Hamilton has not taken her eyes off Angela van den Bogerd since her lawyer, Tim Moloney KC, began questioning her on the former sub-postmistress's case.
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. She's kept her expression neutral, hands clasped in her lap as her lawyer accuses Van den Bogerd of negligence or lies.
Although campaigners won the right for cases to be reconsidered, so far only 102 convictions had been overturned. The questions that lawyers are asking today, and to all the key Post Office figures who have given evidence previously in the inquiry, have come from the sub-postmasters and postmistresses they represent directly.
Being here with, literally in Hamilton's case, a front row seat to bear witness to those questions and answers, is something that has been a long time coming for many of them.
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