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Azadeh Moshiri We're now hearing more questions from the counsel towards Jon Longman. After the lunch break he is shown an email exchange that was forwarded to him back in February 2010.
Reporting from outside the inquiry The former Post Office investigator is asked whether he recalls an email chain where possible problems with the Horizon IT system's transaction logs were flagged.
I caught up with David Enright, whose firm represents former Longman says he agrees that the email suggests there were problems, but he is not sure if the email relates directly to the question in a previous statement.
sub-postmasters. His own clients include Jennifer O'Dell, whose case is one Jon He is pressed further but cannot recall if there were discussions resulting from the issues flagged in that email.
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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