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Post Office inquiry live: Angela van den Bogerd shown letter blaming PO for postmaster's death - BBC News Angela van den Bogerd shown letter blaming PO for postmaster's death - BBC News
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Oliver Smith Jacqueline Howard
Reporting from the inquiryReporting from the inquiry
We’ve been speaking a lot over the last two days to Parmod Kalia, a former It's clear that many former sub-postmasters and postmistresses wouldn't describe Angela van den Bogerd as one their favourite people.
sub-postmaster from Orpington, Kent, who was given a six month jail sentence after being She was an executive at the Post Office for many years, oversaw a number of the complaints about the Horizon system and was on a working group dealing with the fallout of the scandal. In short, she was a major figure in the scandal.
falsely accused of stealing £22,000 from the Post Office. A key theme of her evidence over the past two days is that she heard "rumblings" of issues with Horizon, but nothing substantive enough to spark concerns until it was too late.
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 Her evidence of these "rumblings" were met with rumblings of another kind in the inquiry room. Dozens of former sub-postmasters and postmistresses - some of who dealt with Van den Bogerd directly in their complaints, and in some cases were wrongly prosecuted - were not shy in reacting to her claims.
Horizon system was robust. Her responses were regularly met with groans, laughter and shakes of the head, which grew particularly animated during the fiery questioning towards the end of the day.
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: These sub-postmasters and postmistresses were under no illusions that they would get any sense of satisfaction or closure from Van den Bogerd's evidence - but they felt compelled to turn up and face her all the same.
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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