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Post Office investigators were only focused on getting money from subpostmasters blamed for accounting shortfalls, according to a 2013 report commissioned by Post Office’s legal boss

Senior company lawyer agrees that 2013 draft report shows ‘needless adversarialism’ by Post Office team

A former top lawyer at the postal group admitted its security team took an "adversarial" approach

Angela van den Bogerd is back at the inquiry today for a second day of evidence over failures that led to sub-postmasters being wrongly convicted of theft and fraud. Yesterday, she apologised but insisted she did not try to cover anything up.

The Post Office established a scheme to compensate subpostmasters affected by tech faults, but it was just a charade, says Public Inquiry KC.

Angela van den Bogerd, who held various roles over 35 years at the organisation, gave evidence for a second day on Friday. The former executive earlier said she never "knowingly" did anything wrong.

ITV boss Kevin Lygo has revealed the hit drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office made a loss of around a million pounds despite the show being sold to a host of foreign broadcasters.

Former executive Angela van den Bogerd worked alongside ex-Post Office boss Paula Vennells and was portrayed by Corrie actress Katherine Kelly in ITV's Mr Bates vs The Post Office

Vennells asked her computer literate husband for a non-emotive way to describe issues with the Horizon IT system, the public inquiry heard yesterday.

The Post Office executive committee was in favour of ceasing prosecutions entirely, a former top lawyer told an inquiry.