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Post Office Barrister Richard Morgan KC tells the Post Office Inquiry that he may have DAYDREAMED about a meeting with Paula Vennells, the former Post Office Chief Executive and pieced together the memory from seeing her on TV at the time when explaining part of his statement to Sam Stein, representing many subpostmasters as Core Participants. He also says that he considered Gareth Jenkins evidence as 'opinion evidence' rather than expert evidence and needed an independent expert to include what he was saying in their own statement despite Gareth Jenkins holding the official title of 'Distinguished Engineer' at Fujitsu and being a lead architect of the Horizon system. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #PostOfficeBarrister #RichardMorganKC #SamStein #CoreParticipants

Post Office Barrister Richard Morgan KC appears to be CAUGHT OUT By Court Transcripts from Lee Castleton's trial shown in evidence at the Post Office Inquiry by Jason Beer KC. Richard Morgan has told the Post Office Inquiry that Lee Castleton didn't raise any issues with the figures and signed off documents as true and accurate but is then shown statements by Lee Castleton during the opening where he tells the judge he did indeed question the figures at rang the Post Office helpline who assured him they would look into the losses. Further evidence is shown from the cross examination of Lee Castleton by Richard Morgan KC where he again questions the integrity of the Horizon computer system as well as the accuracy of the figures produced and explains he followed the procedures set out by informing the helpline REPEATEDLY of the discrepancies being produced. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #PostOfficeBarrister #RichardMorganKC #LeeCastleton #MarineDrive

Post Office Barrister Richard Morgan KC describes the Post Office's proposed settlement agreement - or Tomlin order - for Lee Castleton as an UNEFORCEABLE Waste of Space when he is questioned about it by Jason Beer KC at the Post Office Inquiry. He regarded that clients normally 'ask for the moon' in such settlements 'when they have no need for it'. One clause of the settlement agreement proposed for Lee Castleton was that he could not criticise the Horizon system and that if he did so he would be agreeing to submit to a Post Office Injunction preventing him from doing it again and paying them 'approximate' damages of £25,000. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #PostOfficeBarrister #RichardMorganKC #LeeCastleton #MarineDrive

Post Office Barrister REFUSES to Admit a Miscarriage of Justice occurred during the case of Lee Castleton despite overwhelming evidence presented to the Post Office Inquiry as he is questioned by Core Participants. Three times he is asked if there was a 'miserable' or 'desperate' miscarriage of justice and he places the responsibility back onto Lee Castleton for allegedly not saying certain things at trial and the solicitors who formally acted on his behalf. He also distances himself from the disclosure decisions of his former instructing solicitor Stephen Dilley when it is put to him that disclosure in the case of Lee Castleton was a 'dismal failure'. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #PostOfficeBarrister #RichardMorganKC #StephenDilley #LeeCastleton #MarineDrive #CoreParticipants

Post Office Solicitor Stephen Dilley was Worried DISCLOSURE of vital Horizon Helpdesk evidence, potentially supporting the defence of Lee Castleton, would 'Overwhelm Defendant' and decided against disclosing this to him during his trial over wellbeing concerns. Such evidence available at the time included that the Horizon Helpdesk was getting between 12,000 and 15,000 calls per month from subpostmasters with issues and the solicitor decided to neither disclose the volume or the content of these calls. Post Office Barrister Richard Morgan KC insists that he wasn't involved, nor instructed, on disclosure issues in the case of Lee Castleton. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #PostOfficeBarrister #PostOfficeSolicitor #RichardMorganKC #StephenDilley #LeeCastleton #MarineDrive

No One at Fujitsu wants Responsibility for Horizon Error Checks evidence to the Post Office Inquiry shows. Fujitsu Manager Peter Sewell is asked about the actions he is assigned to ensure that event logs are checked for errors to ensure the accuracy of ARQ data but when this drops off the radar and he is reminded he isn't sure his team is the correct one for the job. Gareth Jenkins, who it appears previously handled the checks, says that he needs it to be passed off to the SSC and it appears whilst the eventually agree to do an 'informal favour' no one at Fujitsu wants to take formal responsibility following the discovery of a potentially major issue with the Horizon system used at Post Office branches. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #Fujitsu #FujitsuHorizon #FujitsuManager #PeterSewell

Fujitsu Conclude there is Insufficient Evidence for a full Horizon Investigation in evidence shown to the Post Office Inquiry. Despite previously halting ARQ requests and witness statements provided to the Post Office in light of issues raised at branches where Horizon transactions are being 'lost', following a meeting there is a conclusion that there is insufficient evidence for a full investigation into the Horizon audit process and instead suggests some follow up actions including reviewing the wording of witness statements. Peter Sewell, in charge of the team providing evidence to the Post Office, provides his recollections of the actions prior to and following this decision. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #Fujitsu #FujitsuHorizon #FujitsuManager #PeterSewell

Fujitsu HALT Post Office Data Requests Amid Horizon Concerns in evidence shown to the Post Office Inquiry and discussed with former Security Operations Manager at Fujitsu Peter Sewell. Peter Sewell says that he remembers the incident being discussed and the meetings attended and says that the issues raised with 'lost' transactions in Horizon did concern him and that is why they took the decision to halt ARQ requests from the Post Office and pause writing witness statements whilst it was investigated in 2008. So what was the resolution that enabled them to restart the requests and witness statements? #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #Fujitsu #FujitsuHorizon #FujitsuManager #PeterSewell

Fujitsu Manager Peter Sewell tells the Post Office Inquiry that he was UNAWARE that Horizon was LOSING transactions and that it was subsequently creating shortfalls at Post Office branches despite recalling in the same period that he was aware that prosecutions had been suspended by the Post Office whilst the issue was investigated. Fujitsu noted in the KEL (Known Error Log) that at least 3 PEAKs (incidents) had been reported at different branches resulting in 'lost' transactions resulting in identical shortfalls at branches to the transactions lost. In an email exchange, it is acknowledged that the issue is occurring and sugests that subpostmasters are likely not aware of such 'silent errors' occurring within the Horizon system. Fujitsu noted at the time that they didn't plan to fix this bug in Horizon as it was 'relatively rare' #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #Fujitsu #Horizon #FujitsuHorizon #FujitsuManager #PeterSewell

Fujitsu 'Watered Down' an important Change Request Document to REMOVE Horizon Criticism as evidence to the Post Office Inquiry shows. The change request in either terms of the workaround process and the proposed change are substantively the same but references to the 'error prone' tactical workaround process and the need to 'water down' witness statements due to the audit vulnerabilities in Horizon are removed. Fujitsu Manager Peter Sewell is pointedly asked 'what is the point in your job?' as he claims that the extent of his involvement as a manager, and a specific 'change owner', in this request was to 'listen to people'. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #Fujitsu #FujitsuHorizon #FujitsuManager #PeterSewell

Fujitsu confirm that the Horizon Audit Process was 'Prone to Error' in an internal change request document presented as evidence at the Post Office Inquiry. Despite it being a change request for the Post Office's Horizon system, Fujitsu Manager Peter Sewell says that it is an internal Fujitsu document that he doesn't believe should be shared with the Post Office. The change request highlights the ongoing issue with the Horizon audit process and this also seems to be a weakness in the proposed Horizon Online system for which a change request is raised. When asked why the issue would not be addressed in legacy Horizon, Peter Sewell identifies costs and a lack of available resource for such a change. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #Fujitsu #FujitsuHorizon #FujitsuManager #PeterSewell

Fujitsu DOWNPLAY grave Horizon Audit and Integrity Concerns to the Post Office over a year after first discovering the issue. Evidence shown to the Post Office Inquiry shows that internal emails and presentations appear to be becoming more concerned and strongly worded as time goes on but the communication to the Post Office highlights that a review of 2007/08 data is required following identification of a single issue and a single branch at the end of 2007 which results in an erroneous shortfall in the Horizon system. They are also assured that a fix for this issue was deployed approximately a year after it was discovered in November 2008. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #Fujitsu #Horizon #FujitsuManager #PeterSewell

Fujitsu Determine Own Witness Statements produced for the Post Office court cases to be Inaccurate and major concerns are again raised in a presentation which highlights further inadequacies of both the Horizon audit system as well as the tactical workaround process to try to eliminate some of the inadequacies. The most damning revelation is the admission that past and current witness statements are inaccurate in that they are guaranteeing completeness and accuracy and this is now concluded internally within Fujitsu to not be the case. Peter Sewell tells the Post Office Inquiry that he cannot remember being very concerned about it at the time. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #Fujitsu #Horizon #FujitsuManager #PeterSewell

Fujitsu Manager Peter Sewell is told AGAIN about CATASTROPHIC Audit Weaknesses by a member of his team, Penny Thomas, and is asked questions by Counsel to the Post Office Inquiry. He says that he has no recollection of these events so is instead asked questions about what he feels now and has to be pressed multiple times to say what he think should have happened in the face of such weaknesses and whether these critical problems in Horizon should have been raised at higher levels to which he appears to reluctantly agree. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #Fujitsu #FujitsuHorizon #FujitsuManager #PeterSewell

Fujitsu Manager Peter Sewell had NO Concerns over INACCURATE Witness Statements being provided to the Post Office for use in court cases he tells the Post Office Inquiry. A series of meetings are had relating to the inaccuracy of Horizon audit data and a proposed fix for Horizon Online which was currently in development and whilst Peter Sewell is named as a required attendee he says the statements from the meeting minutes about the inaccuracy of prior Horizon audit data provided as part of the Audit Record Query (ARQ) process to the Post Office and the inaccuracy of witness statements didn't concern him at the time despite being in charge of the team at Fujitsu providing the witness statements. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #Fujitsu #FujitsuHorizon #FujitsuManager #PeterSewell

Why Is The Post Office Inquiry Taking So Long? This is the question we look at today including reference to Sir Wyn Williams, Chair of the Post Office Inquiry, comments about issues with disclosure and why breaks between phases of the inquiry are necessary. We discuss both of these often asked community questions in a slightly different kind of video seeking to address your questions about the Post Office Inquiry. We delve into the reasons why the breaks are necessary for the Post Office Inquiry to call witnesses and seek disclosure over which there has been longstanding issues as well as the necessary preparations involved in getting witness statements and arranging appearances at the Inquiry. Phases 5 & 6 of the Post Office Inquiry begin on April 9th 2024. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #Fujitsu #SirWyn #SirWynWillams #PostOfficeInquiryChair

Post Office Investigator Stephen Bradshaw Points the Finger of blame at Senior Management at both the Post Office and Fujitsu for non-disclosure of Horizon bugs in his opening evidence to the Post Office Inquiry. Stephen Bradshaw outlines his 45 year ongoing career at the Post Office including the last 24 years in the Security Team as an investigation manager at the Post Office and has involvement in a large number of the case studies being looked at by the Post Office Inquiry. Stephen Bradshaw has legal representation at the Post Office Inquiry and receives the self-incrimination warning from Post Office Inquiry chair Sir Wyn ahead of giving his testimony. He says investigations were ran professionally at all times, he has no other recollections on them and he wasn't made aware of any issues with the Horizon system. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeInvestigator #PostOfficeInvestigation #StephenBradshaw

Post Office Investigator Stephen Bradshaw switfly BACKTRACKS on his Witness Statement to the Post Office Inquiry where he states that he wasn't aware of any issues with Horizon. Furthermore, in his initial testimony he says that he never had issues communicated to him about the Horizon system from either Post Office or Fujitsu. Within minutes he appears to backtrack on these statements when he's shown evidence of 'his equals' sending him emails in 2010 relating to journalists reporting of Horizon issues and communications he is involved with between the Post Office and Fujitsu discussing a rise in cases citing Horizon issues. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #Fujitsu #Horizon #PostOfficeInvestigator #PostOfficeInvestigation #StephenBradshaw

Post Office Investigator DENIES the Criminal Case Witness Statement submitted by the Post Office in the prosecution of a subpostmaster in 2013 telling the Post Office Inquiry that it was written for him by legal firm Cartwright King. In another damning revelation he says 'very similar' statements were provided by Cartwright King to other members of security team to put their name to and sign espousing the integrity and robustness of the Horizon system and saying that they weren't aware of any issues with the operation of the Horizon system and, whilst they would co-operate with a review of the system, they wanted to make clear this was not an admission of any issues with the Fujitsu Horizon system. Stephen Bradshaw confirms to us that he didn't have the pre-requisite technical knowledge to make such judgements and was instructed to include these lines in his witness statement. He opines that on reflection at the Post Office Inquiry he would now include a line in the statement that these were not his own words and may likely not agree to provide such a witness statement at all now. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #Fujitsu #Horizon #PostOfficeInvestigator #PostOfficeInvestigation #StephenBradshaw

Did Post Office Investigator Stephen Bradshaw regularly Sign Off INCORRECT Statements that he hadn't written? He's asked questions about his witness statements and their usage at the Post Office Inquiry. He describes the practice of witness statements and also highlights how they were inconsistent with his views on how witness statements should be sought and produced as an investigation manager. He questioned by Counsel to the Post Office Inquiry about the concerns, if any, he raised at the time about the witness statements process was and what the response from the Post Office was. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #Fujitsu #Horizon #PostOfficeInvestigator #PostOfficeInvestigation #StephenBradshaw

Did Post Office Investigator Stephen Bradshaw regularly Sign Off INCORRECT Statements that he hadn't written? He's asked questions about his witness statements and their usage at the Post Office Inquiry. He describes the practice of witness statements and also highlights how they were inconsistent with his views on how witness statements should be sought and produced as an investigation manager. He questioned by Counsel to the Post Office Inquiry about the concerns, if any, he raised at the time about the witness statements process was and what the response from the Post Office was. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #Fujitsu #Horizon #PostOfficeInvestigator #PostOfficeInvestigation #StephenBradshaw

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