Alan Bates dismissed for being ‘unmanageable’, Post Office Inquiry heard — Transcript
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- 0:00can we look please at poll
- 0:03303
- 0:141815 this is a presentation on Horizon
- 0:18Integrity prepared by um Dave Smith it's
- 0:23undated but I just want to look at um
- 0:26what it says about you on Page Six
- 0:30uh Mr Smith says of the cases I'm
- 0:33aware Bates had
- 0:35discrepancies was dismissed because he
- 0:38became
- 0:39unmanageable was that ever explained to
- 0:42you that you became unmanageable no not
- 0:44at
- 0:46all and then Mr Smith says of you that
- 0:49you quote clearly struggled with
- 0:53accounting and despite copious support
- 0:56did not follow
- 0:58instructions uh firstly did you struggle
- 1:01with accounting no not not at all were
- 1:04you given copious
- 1:06support
- 1:11no did you seek to
- 1:13follow um the instructions that you had
- 1:16been given by the post office basically
- 1:18try and Bank bankrupt myself no I didn't
- 1:21so not to that
- 1:27extent
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