Gareth Jenkins admits there were ‘discrete bugs’ that could lead to accounting problems but they were ‘well controlled’
A former Fujitsu engineer has insisted the IT system at the centre of the Post Office scandal was robust, despite the High Court finding it was responsible for wrongful prosecutions. Gareth Jenkins told a public inquiry on Tuesday that while he accepted there were “discrete bugs” in the Horizon system — developed by Fujitsu — that could result in account discrepancies, they were well controlled and managed.
Jenkins joined Fujitsu in 1973 when it was International Computers. He retired in 2015 but was retained on an ad hoc basis by the IT company as a consultant until August 2022. He was deployed by the state-owned Post Office as a witness in the prosecution of Seema Misra, a sub-postmaster who was sentenced in 2010 to 15 months in prison for theft while eight weeks pregnant. Misra’s conviction was quashed by the Court of Appeal in 2021.
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