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Gareth Jenkins says past accusation against high-profile victim of Horizon IT scandal was ‘totally inappropriate’A former Fujitsu engineer has apologised for emails in which he accused Seema Misra, a high-profile victim of the Post Office’s Horizon IT scandal, of “jumping on the bandwagon” in questioning the reliability of the organisation’s computer system.Gareth Jenkins, a former senior engineer at Fujitsu, which developed the Horizon IT system, was giving evidence for a third day to a public inquiry examining why the Post Office wrongly prosecuted hundreds of branch operators for financial discrepancies before it emerged that the system was unreliable. Continue reading…
Gareth Jenkins says past accusation against high-profile victim of Horizon IT scandal was ‘totally inappropriate’
A former Fujitsu engineer has apologised for emails in which he accused Seema Misra, a high-profile victim of the Post Office’s Horizon IT scandal, of “jumping on the bandwagon” in questioning the reliability of the organisation’s computer system.
Gareth Jenkins, a former senior engineer at Fujitsu, which developed the Horizon IT system, was giving evidence for a third day to a public inquiry examining why the Post Office wrongly prosecuted hundreds of branch operators for financial discrepancies before it emerged that the system was unreliable.
