Ex-Post Office boss ‘does not recall’ being told IT firm could alter accounts

In addition to the 2010 and 2011 emails, just before the break, Angela van den Bogerd was shown another from April 2014 that details Fujitsu having remote access to Horizon – this one comes from her own request for information after yet another sub-postmaster alleges interference in his Post Office accounts.

Beer asks whether van den Bogerd revealed this when she gave evidence to the High Court years later.

She says she did not.

“Did you forget about this email, too?” Beer asks, noting that she told the High Court she had only learned about the Fujitsu access a year before giving evidence.

Van den Borgerd stands by it, saying that the first formal notification of it came the year before she gave evidence, and that she had given evidence to the High Court based on what she understood to be true at the time.

The inquiry is now back from its short break.