A former senior Fujitsu engineer has denied knowing the “gory details” of remote access to the faulty Horizon system which caused Post Office subpostmasters to be falsely accused of having taken money from branch accounts.
Gareth Jenkins told the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry he thought any remote access would have been visible to subpostmasters and could be distinguished from changes made by third parties, although he acknowledged he knew it was “theoretically possible” this might not always be the case.
Mr Jenkins worked at Fujitsu, formerly known as International Computer Limited, for the whole of his professional career before retiring in 2015, and had been a “distinguished engineer” since the mid-1990s.
His evidence about the Horizon system was used in the prosecutions of many subpostmasters, including Seema Misra, who was given a 15-month prison sentence in November 2010, when she was eight weeks pregnant.
Previous witnesses to the inquiry have claimed Mr Jenkins may have committed perjury due to his failure to disclose knowledge of bugs in the Horizon system to the subpostmasters.
1 Fujitsu engineer Gareth Jenkins grilled by a lawyer
Post Office scandal: Ex-Fujitsu engineer denies hiding problems with Horizon during trial
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29 jun 2024
A former senior Fujitsu engineer has denied hiding problems with Horizon during a trial which led to a wrongly convicted pregnant subpostmaster being jailed, the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry heard.
Gareth Jenkins also told the inquiry on Friday he believes the issues are “down to the way (the) Post Office has behaved”.
Post Office Inquiry: Engineer denies hiding problems with Horizon during trial
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29 jun 2024
A former senior Fujitsu engineer has denied hiding problems with Horizon during a trial which led to a wrongly convicted pregnant subpostmaster being jailed, the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry heard.
Gareth Jenkins also told the inquiry on Friday he believes the issues are “down to the way (the) Post Office has behaved”.
Mr Jenkins worked at Fujitsu, formerly known as International Computer Limited, for the whole of his professional career before retiring in 2015, and had been a “distinguished engineer” since the mid-1990s.
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This was in the early years of the Horizon IT system
The email from Gareth Jenkins about the problems below dates from 2005.
2 Enjoy the Brilliant Work of Lawyers Miss Page and Mr. Sam Stein KC Grilling Gareth Jenkins
LIVE Post Office Inquiry questions former Fujitsu engineer Gareth Jenkins for final day
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The Post Office Inquiry will end its week with a final day of questioning of former Fujitsu distinguished engineer, Gareth Jenkins.
The expression “loose language” refers to the use of words or phrases that are vague, imprecise, or not carefully considered. When Gareth Jenkins says “this is loose language,” he likely means that the wording being discussed is not specific or accurate enough, which could lead to misunderstandings or misinterpretations. In the context of a legal inquiry, precise language is crucial to ensure clarity and avoid any ambiguity that could affect the outcome or the understanding of the issues at hand.
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Seema Misra and husband Davinder and lawyer Miss Page
3 Post Office investigator Graham Ward a man in trouble
Horizon IT Inquiry: 4 Graham Ward – U-turn or what?
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Graham Ward was the Post Office investigator who helped put former Subpostmaster Noel Thomas away. Whether he did so by perverting the course of justice is something the Metropolitan Police (his current employer) will be looking at very closely, after today’s evidence session. The Metropolitan Police are core participants to the Inquiry.
Mr Ward was called back to the Inquiry after his first evidence session on 1 Feb this year. During that evidence session he was taken by Jason Beer KC to various emails surrounding a witness statement drafted in late 2005 by Fujitsu engineer Gareth Jenkins which was going to be used as part of the Post Office’s prosecution case against Noel Thomas.
Jenkins had written in his statement that a zero value transaction (an issue being raised as evidence of Horizon error by Mr Thomas) could be caused by one of three things, the third one being “there has been some sort of system failure – such failures are normal occurrences”.
Graham Ward did not like this. He told his colleagues it was “potentially very damaging”.
Beer took him to a marked-up version of Jenkins’ witness statement sent in an email by Ward back to the Fujitsu team. By now it was early 2006. In the body of the email Ward had written that it was “important” to get the attached witness statement right “and ensure that we’re not embarrassed at court, we certainly could be if we produce the statement accepting ‘system failures are normal occurrences’ end quote’.”
4 Post Office and Fujitsu Management FAILINGS Laid Bare
Post Office and Fujitsu Management FAILINGS Laid Bare
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Post Office and Fujitsu Management FAILINGS Laid Bare during the Phase 4 Closing Statement to the Post Office Inquiry by Hudgells, the solicitors representing a number of convicted subpostmasters due to the Post Office prosecutions.
Management failings at both the Post Office and Fujitsu stem beyond a lack of oversight but also wade into encouragement of the approach taken by employees at both organisations in the battle waged against subpostmasters and the dogmatic adherence to ‘Horizon is robust’.
We hear how reputation of both Post Office and Fujitsu – and the success of the Horizon project – were put above anything else
Post Office Inquiry: Watch as former company secretary Alwen Lyons gives evidence.
Alwen Lyons, former Company Secretary of Post Office Ltd, gives evidence.
5 The lawyer’s conspiracy with his client to downplay important matters
In the British Post Office Scandal, the lawyer’s conspiracy with his client to downplay important matters was a critical issue.
SPM’s are All Liars and Criminals. This is what Andrew Parsons thought of the Subpostmasters
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SPM’s are All Liars and Criminals. This is what Andrew Parsons thought of the Subpostmasters when he was prosecuting the innocent.
He didn’t even take personal responsibility for his actions just saying things like “his company” “we” etc. Never, I did those things
The Post Office had a stranglehold on the narrative regards the Horizon system and anybody who dared to contradict Vennels and Perkins were quickly dealt with.
Somewhat similar to Putins stranglehold on his narrative regards Ukraine.
The Metropolitan Police have got together an 80 strong task force to look into whether or not perjury or perverting the course of justice took place.
And if it did, then what? Given the Met Police’s record of late there is no real point in this task force.
I bet all the heirarchy of the Post Office at the time, have got twitchy nether regions and worried sick about spending time in one of the Kings hotels for bad people.
6 Four more webpages about expert engineer Gareth Jenkins
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