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Longman is asked about the issues at the Post office "with having somebody in charge of pursing reasonable lines of inquiry but didn't have significant knowledge of Horizon system?" The hearing is shown an email chain in which a Post Office lawyer says it expects to get more claims from sub-postmasters challenging Horizon's integrity and "this has been building a head of steam for years".
"Well yes," Longman answers and says that the onus was on the investigator to find people who could explain how the system worked. Longman is asked during the hearing if he agrees with that sentiment. He says: "Yes I think they'd been increasing."Another email is shown to the hearing in which a Post Office lawyer writes Longman is saving them "hundreds of thousands" in external fees and asks for him to be freed up.
"When putting a case together if there were questions about Post Office procedures that I couldn't answer, it was a task to find someone who could," he continues. Longman tells the hearing he was helping the Post Office deal with disclosure requests.
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