Post Office inquiry live updates: Angela van den Bogerd 'does not ...
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Looking now to an email from Jessica Barker to multiple people, including van den Bogerd, in 2014.
It's about a draft report from Second Sight about what they were planning to say about a specific case.
In the email we see Belinda Crowe, programme director for Project Sparrow, asks whether this is the first report that references remote access, and says they need to "pick this up very robustly".
Crowe adds it appears they were asking for proof from the PO about Horizon.
Melanie Corfield, from the communications, replies to the email telling staff the PO's current line on remote access is: "This is not and never has been possible."
Beer says to Van den Borgen: "You knew that was false from multiple sources by now didn't you?"
"Yes," she tells the inquiry.
"It didn't register with me at the time," she says, but now she can see this is clearly false.
Beer says "we've seen a slew of emails now" that told her Fujitsu could remotely access individual transaction and change them. "Why wouldn't you put your hand up?" he asks.
"I just can't recall. To me, it couldn't have registered with me," she says as the messaging was constantly changing.
Pressed on this, Beer asks if the objective of the PO was to hide the remote access issue.
"I was certainly not trying to cover up or suppress," she says.