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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". Azadeh Moshiri
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. Reporting from outside the inquiry
Longman tells the hearing he was helping the Post Office deal with disclosure requests. I caught up with David Enright, whose firm represents former
sub-postmasters. His own clients include Jennifer O'Dell, whose case is one Jon
Longman has said he had "reservations" about.
In
a write-up of an interview with O'Dell shown at the hearing, Longman wrote she
blamed losses on Horizon and refused to make good the audit shortage. Yet, at
the time, Longman did not think it was relevant to disclose the challenge to
the Horizon IT system in her case to Seema Misra's legal team.
Enright tells me his clients have accused the Post Office’s investigators of
intimidation, bullying, and acting like "heavies" who were "demanding to know
where the money has gone".
"Of
course, we now know that money simply didn’t exist, it was a phantom fantasy of
a broken computer system," he adds.
He
says this is at the heart of what this inquiry is trying to do – to demonstrate
“the way these people were treated was wrong”.
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