Second Sight forensic investigator Ron Warmington described the Post Office as ‘incredibly defensive’.
An independent forensic investigator told a former Conservative MP that Post Office staff “probably fear it will be career death” if they conceded failings with the Horizon system, an inquiry has heard.
“They were operating some sort of behind-the-scenes deception process which suggests to me now that they were stringing MPs along in order to preserve the robustness of Horizon, the existence of Horizon and possibly the existence of the Post Office.He continued: “They portrayed Second Sight’s interim report as giving Horizon a clean bill of health when clearly it hadn’t, and that led me to think that they didn’t like what Second Sight had said about Horizon.
“What we are getting are highly technical, multi-page responses that will appear to many to have been crafted so as to avoid actually giving any answers to those assertions and allegations at all.” During Lord Arbuthnot’s evidence, the inquiry also heard Ms Vennells suggested “temptation” for subpostmasters to borrow money from tills was a problem and not the Horizon system.
In his witness statement to the probe, he said: “They said that the Post Office should exclude altogether from the mediation scheme people who had pleaded guilty — a different proposition from their being put to the back of the queue.
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