Peter Sewell - Post Office Inquiry

Peter Sewell a former Project Manager in a Post Office Department at #Fujitsu branded innocent subpostmaster Lee Castleton a 'nasty chap' in an email egging on a colleague about to give evidence in his 2006 court case - POL v Castleton. Peter Sewell spoke to the inquiry today and we listen to his response along with the accompanying articles including #subpostmaster Lee Castleton's response and some analysis of the evidence given to the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry today. Clearly something was very wrong at Fujitsu... #PostOfficeScandal #HorizonScandal #PostOfficeInquiry

Standard witness templates were produced in 2005 by #Fujitsu as part of giving evidence in private Post Office prosecutions and Peter Sewell, project manager at Fujitsu discusses the template produced by a member of his team. We analyse his responses to questioning as well as the content of the standard template used by Fujitsu witnesses in the prosecution of #subpostmasters as Peter Sewell gives his evidence to the Post Office Inquiry. Keep signing, sharing and subscribing to Hold Fujitsu to account for Post Office scandal. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PeterSewell

A standard witness statement template produced by #Fujitsu for use in #PostOffice private prosecution statements is presented to Peter Sewell, former Fujitsu manager in the Post Office Accounts Security team. The standard witness template includes a statement about there being no issue with Horizon Data. Specifically 'None of these calls [to Horizon Help] relate to faults which would have had any effect on the integrity of the information held on the system'. Peter Sewell answers questions on amendments that he requested to this. We discuss the standard witness statement and provide analysis of the evidence, including the changes requested by Peter Sewell #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #HorizonScandal #PeterSewell

'We will note this on your appraisal' - a message from a Fujitsu manager to a team member who is about to provide a witness statement for the Post Office private prosecution of a subpostmaster related to #Horizon data and shortfalls. We analyse Peter Sewell's involvement and his responses to the Post Office Inquiry. Were Fujitsu setting Appraisal Targets for Post Office Witness Statements? Whether or not an official policy it has certainly been mentioned by a manager in this email exchange and we explore the context and circumstances surrounding it. Thank you for your continued support. Please keep signing, sharing and subscribing! #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #HorizonScandal #Fujitsu

Horizon 'System Failures sounds too drastic', these should be 'normal system occurrences' is a shocking admission in an email chain discussing former subpostmaster Lee Castleton's case as former Fujitsu manager continues to give evidence to the Post Office Inquiry. We analyse the discussions that were going on between the Fujitsu Post Office Security Team and the Post Office Investigation team led by Graham Ward showing what appears to be a standard procedure for providing increasing numbers of witness statements for use by the Post Office in the prosecution of innocent subpostmasters during the Post Office Scandal. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #Fujitsu #HorizonScandal

Analysis of the discussion surrounding the editing of witness statements provided by Fujitsu to the Post Office Inquiry. Peter Sewell is questioned on his involvement with Fujitsu - Edited Witness Statements and we examine the email evidence of members of his team discussing the Gaerwen Road Post Office prosecution case including the discussion of whether the witness statements 'meet requirements'. The subpostmaster at Gaerwen Road had rebutted claims by the Post Office that they had taken money by claiming that Horizon was broken - which we now know it was - but there appears to be a focus, influenced by the Post Office and Graham Ward's investigation team over witness statements. #PostOfficeScandal #PostOfficeInquiry #Fujitsu

Gareth Jenkins, a Fujitsu employee asked to give a witness statement isn't comfortable with some of the text contained within. So much so, he shares his worries with managers that the statement is now 'useless'. Useless for what though exactly? Surely the usefulness of witness statements directly correlates to the truth contained within them? The outcome should always be justice - whether or not that results in a prosecution. We analyse the email evidence as well as Peter Sewell's response to his involvement in the Fujitsu: 'Useless' Witness Statements at the Post Office Inquiry. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #Fujitsu #PeterSewell

We analyse the astonishing evidence regarding the now infamous 'lock' issue that came to light during the case against the Craigpark Post Office subpostmaster and how Fujitsu thought that introducing a patch for this would actually break Horizon further in 2008. We delve into the 'lock' issue and the decisions made within Fujitsu and try to ascertain to what extent the Post Office were aware of the 'lock' / 'Craigpark' issue in 2008. Peter Sewell, now Security Operations Manager in the Fujitsu Post Office Account team responds to his involvement. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #Fujitsu #LockIssue #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 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