In full: Architect of faulty Horizon software gives evidence | Post Office Inquiry

A former Fujitsu engineer who helped designed the beleaguered Horizon IT system will give evidence to the Post Office Inquiry today. Gareth Jenkins helped create the bug-ridden software that inaccurately recorded shortfalls on sub-postmaster accounts, leading to more than 900 wrongfully prosecutions. Mr Jenkins was used by the Post Office as an expert witness in sub-postmaster prosecutions – giving evidence in-person in the 2010 trial of sub-postmistress Seema Misra, who was pregnant when she was handed a 15-month prison sentence. However, the organisation received legal advice in 2013 that warned Mr Jenkins’s failure to disclose bugs in the Horizon software “fatally undermined” his credibility as an expert witness. Read more: #postoffice #inquiry #horizon Subscribe to The Telegraph with our special offer. Start your free trial now: