Ex-Post Office boss shown letter blaming company for sub-postmaster's suicide

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The Post Office was accused of pressuring Martin Griffiths' widow to accept a payout in return for her silence.

Watch some key moments of Angela Van Den Bogerd's second day giving evidence at the Horizon IT scandal inquiry

Mr Griffiths, who'd worked for the Post Office for 18 years, took his own life after he had been deemed culpable for an armed robbery at his branch in May of that year. In May of that year, he was the victim of an armed robbery at the branch - for which the Post Office deemed him culpable.ITV News' Paul Brand analyses Ms Van Den Bogerd's second day of evidence

Mr Beer pressed Ms Van Den Bogerd over the culture of the post office and questioned why their first thought on receiving that news was they need a media lawyer, rather than supporting the family.She admitted: "No it wasn't." She said it was "simply disgusting" the family were offered £140,000 in return for the family's silence, which Mr Beer described as "an incentive using money as a tool to keep the matter hushed up".Ms Van Den Bogerd said the payment was equivalent to the Post Office's "network transformation payment" and was not intended to be "packaged" as a payment for his death.

 

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