Angela van den Bogerd, a former Post Office executive, has taken the stand at the Inquiry into the Horizon IT scandal and apologized to the hundreds of victims wrongfully convicted and dismissed. Van den Bogerd, who was depicted in the ITV drama ‘Mr Bates vs The Post Office,’ worked closely with ex-Post Office boss Paula Vennells and was responsible for handling complaints about the faulty Horizon system.
The former HR director of the Post Office has accused the CEO, Nick Read, of being ‘obsessed with his pay’ and launching a ‘deliberate campaign to defame and ostracize’ her. Jane Davies made the allegations in a letter to the Government’s Business and Trade Committee. Davies claims that Read made repeated threats to resign over his salary, despite being offered a 5% pay rise. She also alleges that Read regarded her as a failure for not securing a higher pay increase and that he subsequently ostracized her. The Post Office’s latest accounts reveal that Read’s salary for the 2022 to 2023 financial year totaled £570,000, down from £816,000 in the previous year. Davies’ letter comes a week after the Post Office confirmed that Read had been cleared of all misconduct allegations following a report into his behavior.
