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Security reports are now being discussed at the inquiry, where Leighton is shown evidence relating to Royal Mail. Earlier today we heard from Jon Longman, who was the former Post Office investigator responsible for investigating sub-postmasters until 2012.
There is a brief interruption by the chair of the inquiry, Sir Wyn Williams, who pressed Leighton on whether he expected similar security reports dealing exclusively with Post Office Limited to be presented to the Post Office board. Longman investigated the high-profile Seema Misra case. The former sub-postmistress was wrongfully jailed while pregnant after being accused of stealing £74,000.
"I am not sure, sir," Leighton replies. While being pressed by lawyers at the inquiry, Longman said he "was always told Horizon was robust" and given this he did not have concerns about the growing number of challenges.
He says that what he would have expected, if there was a concern in any way shape or form, is that it would have been raised at the Post Office board. He also admitted he was "never comfortable" with the
To which Sir Wyn asks: "If it was thought appropriate to report to Royal Mail that there had been 399 prosecutions in a particular year... wouldn't it have been equally appropriate to report to the Post Office that Post Office had prosecuted 100 people, or whatever it was?" case of sub-postmistress Jennifer O'Dell who was wrongly accused of stealing
"When you put it like that, yes," Leighton adds. more than £9,600 in 2009, adding the system should have been investigated.
Longman
was asked whether issues with the Horizon IT system were "swept under the
carpet", to which he says that "with hindsight I should have been more forceful".
Internal emails shown to the inquiry showed that Post Office investigators feared a "world of
trouble" if the organisation lost a case based on Horizon's integrity.
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