Angela van den Bogerd gave evidence for a second day at the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry in central London on Friday.
A former top Post Office executive has denied claims of “bullying” and “intimidating” behaviour towards a wrongly convicted subpostmistress.
She replied her expectation would be “they would get some help” to try and understand where the shortfall came from. The inquiry was earlier shown an email, from fraud analyst Helen Rose sent to Ms van den Bogerd on February 13 2013, about the audit record query logs being provided by Fujitsu for use in court.
She said: “Well it was outside my knowledge scope, so I wouldn’t have had the knowledge to know what to do with that.” He had also previously written to the Post Office in July 2013 about a £39,000 shortfall at his branch between February 2012 and May 2013. She replied: “In all my time with Post Office from very, very early on, I was very conscious that PR was very important.”
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