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Before the inquiry finished, Stein's fiery questions included reminders of some of the sub-postmasters who were affected by the Horizon scandal. Oliver Smith
He mentioned Jacqueline Falcon, who worked at a Post Office branch in Hadston, Northumberland, between 2000 and 2015. Reporting from the inquiry
He says she got blamed by her employer for a shortfall. We’ve been speaking a lot over the last two days to Parmod Kalia, a former
Falcon was arrested and charged with fraud, given a suspended prison sentence, shunned by her local community, barely able to leave her house and was put on antidepressants, Stein says. He added that she was arrested in 2015. sub-postmaster from Orpington, Kent, who was given a six month jail sentence after being
“Why didn't the Post Office send out a message to make sure people were not unnecessarily blamed for, what might be, or could be a problem with the system?” he asked Van den Bogerd. falsely accused of stealing £22,000 from the Post Office.
Van den Bogerd said the message given to sub-postmasters was that help was available when she was in support services, but that assistance wasn’t there earlier than that. Earlier, he sat in the inquiry room with tears in his eyes as inquiry counsel Ed Henry KC questioned Angela van den Bogerd about a letter she sent to him in 2015 insisting that the
Horizon system was robust.
I caught up with Parmod here at the inquiry and he told me the exchange was "very tough" to watch. He welled up again as he told us how he was feeling:
He [Henry] brought back memories of my mum. I had to beg and borrow from her, and I could never pay her back. It was very important for the barrister to bring it up. Despite her knowing about remote access, she’s still maintaining the same line."
I asked if he had heard what he wanted to from Van den Bogerd, to which he told me he was looking at her throughout the questioning because he "wanted some kind of acceptance".
“I haven’t got what I’m looking for which is a public apology to me personally. I know she apologised to everyone yesterday, but that was off a bit of paper," he said.
“I still need the Post Office to acknowledge what they put me through. She’s broken me."
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