Ex-Post Office director gave high court 'false' evidence on Horizon, inquiry told
The Guardian|April 26, 2024
A former senior Post Office executive gave "false" evidence to the high court about the ability of the Horizon IT system to be accessed remotely, a public inquiry has heard.
Jane Croft
Ex-Post Office director gave high court 'false' evidence on Horizon, inquiry told

Angela van den Bogerd, who was business improvement director at the postal company, was asked about testimony she gave in 2018 in a lawsuit brought by the former branch operator Alan Bates and 554 others suing the Post Office over their persecution and prosecution because of the Horizon system.

The public inquiry was shown a "slew of emails" sent to Van den Bogerd in December 2010, 2011 and 2014 that referred to the fact that Horizon could be accessed remotely and branch accounts tampered with by Fujitsu, the Japanese company that developed the IT system.

Jason Beer KC, counsel to the inquiry, put it to Van den Bogerd that she had made a "false" statement when she told the high court she had only been aware of remote access to the IT system "a year or so" before.

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