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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. Allan Leighton, a businessman, has held several senior roles at the Post Office.
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. Leighton, 71, was once the chair of Royal Mail Holdings, and he was also the chair and non-executive director of the Post Office. He is also the former non-executive director of the Royal Mail Group.
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. Leighton was affiliated to the Royal Mail between 2001 and 2009, and to the Post Office between 2002 and 2009, according to Companies House records.
He is pressed further but cannot recall if there were discussions resulting from the issues flagged in that email. He was the Royal Mail’s chairman when some of the cases wrongly prosecuting sub-postmasters, because of incorrect information from the Horizon IT system, were brought to court. In the 1990s Leighton was Asda’s top boss.
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