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Witness Statement Post Office Ltd
Criminal Justice Act 1967, Section 9; Magistrates Court Act 1980,
sub section. 5A(3)(a) and 5B; Criminal Procedure Rules 2005, Rule
271
Statement of Christopher William DIXON
Age if under 18 Over 18 (If over 18 insert ‘over 18')
This statement (consisting of I pages each signed by me) is true to the best of my knowledge and belief
and I make it knowing that, if it is tendered in evidence, I shall be liable to prosecution if I have wilfully
stated in it anything, which I know to be false or do not believe true.
Datedthe 18 day of I September 2012
Signature
I am the above named person and I became Book-Keeper for Animal In Needs Charity in April 2011.
The charity accounts were approximately 2 years behind in providing their accounts for the year end.
I was completing the annual accounts for year 2010-2011 in November 2011 when I noticed there
was a banking problem. From the income sheets I identified a number of items that had not
appeared on the Co-Op bank statement and I though the problem was due to late banking of the
money.
I spoke with Frances ELLIS one of the trustee’s in November 2011 and she assured me that all the
banking’s where made on time.
I had analysed the items that had not been credited on time, but had subsequently been credited to
the exact amount but with a delay of a few weeks rising up to 3 months. I cross referenced the
paying in slips with the bank statements to identify when the payment was made at the Post Office
to when the payment was credited.
From my analysis I identified approximately £33,000 of cash banked at the Post Office that had not
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Witness Statement
Criminal Justice Act 1967, Section 9; Magistrates Court Act 1980, sub section, 5A(3)(a) and 5B; criminal Procedure Rules 2005, Rule 27.1
Continuation of statement of Christopher William DIXON
been credited to the Animals in Need charity for the period of 30 August 2011 to the 2" December
2011.
Frances ELLIS contacted the Co-Op bank for an explanation and I later spoke with the Co-Op bank,
they could not give me any explanation for this problem.
I also recall that we had to ask for an advance of £5,000 due to the cash flow problem as a result of
these late or non banked deposits.
I now produce the following exhibits:
CW0D/1 - An analysis showing when payments were made at the Post Office and subsequently
credited at the Co-Op bank. The date on the left hand side is the date of credit, for example £1°5
was paid into the Post Office on 21 January 2011 but not credited to the Co-Op until 1 April 2014
CWD/2 - An analysis showing the outstanding deposit slips up to 2 December 2011.
I can say that in November 2011, we had a set of books that were accurate and they showed a large
amount of late banking’s and also paying in slips that had not been credited.
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