Post Office tried to 'hush up case of operator who killed himself'
The Guardian|April 27, 2024
The Post Office sought to "hush up" the case of Martin Griffiths, a post office operator who took his own life, by "drip feeding" compensation payments to his widow and lining up a media lawyer to protect its reputation, a public inquiry has heard.
Jane Croft
Post Office tried to 'hush up case of operator who killed himself'

Angela van den Bogerd, a former business improvement director at the state-owned body, was being questioned at the Horizon IT public inquiry yesterday about the case of Griffiths, who died in 2013 after financial shortfalls were found at his Post Office branch in Cheshire.

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