Horizon system expert denied tailoring evidence in convictions later quashed
Gareth Jenkins, former distinguished engineer at Fujitsu Services Ltd, said he"clearly got trapped into doing things that I shouldn't have done" when giving technical evidence that led to the wrongful conviction of Post Office workers in one of the biggest IT scandals to hit the UK.
Horizon is an EPOS and backend finance system for thousands of Post Office branches around the UK, first implemented by ICL, a UK technology company later bought by Fujitsu. From 1999 until 2015, 736 local branch managers were wrongfully convicted of fraud when errors in the system were to blame. Flora Page, the lawyer who represents Misra, among others, pointed out that Jenkins had said in his submission for an appraisal that he had helped succeed in the prosecution and"Horizon was given a clean bill of health."He denied tailoring the evidence, but said:"I'm sorry for what happened to Mrs Misra but I feel that was down to the way that the had actually behaved and wasn't purely down to me. I clearly got trapped into doing things that I shouldn't have done.
Jenkins said the EPOS code, which had been developed in 1998, became his responsibility around 2004 and 2005, but he had assumed it had stabilized by then.
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