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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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Now, Watts takes an even more stern tone with Van den Bogerd, as she asks whether she was responsible for, or complacent in, the lie that there was nothing wrong with Horizon. Following that denial about her behaviour towards O'Dell, Sam Stein reminds Van den Bogerd that a High Court Judge - Mr Justice Fraser - found in 2019 that he "simply couldn't trust" her evidence.
Van den Bogerd responds with a one word answer - "no" - a response that's becoming very familiar as the inquiry nears its end for the day. That was during a case before the court, after 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.
Watts pushes Van den Bogerd on whether her actions were all to protect the Post Office from an "existential threat". Stein asks if, that same year, she received her bonus. "Er, yes," replies Van den Bogerd.
"That wasn't my intention," she responds. Stein continues: "So, despite a finding that you essentially lied to the High Court, you got your bonus?"
"Yes," she says.
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