Second Sight forensic investigator Ron Warmington described the Post Office as ‘incredibly defensive’.
An independent forensic investigator told a former Conservative MP that Post Office staff “probably fear it will be career death” if they conceded failings with the Horizon system, an inquiry has heard.
Speaking about the organisation’s position following an investigation by Second Sight, Lord Arbuthnot told the probe on Wednesday: “They knew there was a large number of bugs in the system that they hadn’t told MPs about. The email read: “They are still – understandably I suppose – incredibly defensive and nobody – at the levels producing the responses – is ready to give an inch.
Lord Arbuthnot told the inquiry: “I had rather greater faith in Second Sight’s legal expertise than it seems they did.” During Lord Arbuthnot’s evidence, the inquiry also heard Ms Vennells suggested “temptation” for subpostmasters to borrow money from tills was a problem and not the Horizon system. Ms Vennells, who was chief executive of the Post Office between 2012 and 2019, was formally stripped of her CBE following the Horizon scandal.
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