A top Post Office lawyer has said he and others “missed” a key finding in 2014 that it was possible to remotely access Horizon software.
Rodric Williams told the Post Office inquiry that repeated assurances this was not possible had been inaccurate.
This included assurances to independent investigators and the BBC.
This included assurances to independent investigators and the BBC.
The Post Office asserted in hundreds of wrongful prosecutions that sub-postmasters must have been to blame for discrepancies in accounts.
And in certain key cases, such as the landmark Bates vs Post Office, the organisation insisted that the software could not be accessed remotely.
However, a report by Deloitte, which had been coordinated by Mr Williams, stated in 2014 that in fact it could be.
When asked by inquiry counsel Jason Beer how Mr Williams had missed this, despite it being a key concern, he said: “I genuinely don’t recall what was happening at the time.”
In trying to reconstruct his thought processes, Mr Williams said “it’s hard to explain” why he missed it.
A top Post Office lawyer has said he and others “missed” a key finding in 2014 that it was possible to remotely access Horizon software.
This included assurances to independent investigators and the BBC.
Rodric Williams told the Post Office inquiry that repeated assurances this was not possible had been inaccurate.
The Post Office asserted in hundreds of wrongful prosecutions that sub-postmasters must have been to blame for discrepancies in accounts.
This included assurances to independent investigators and the BBC.
This included assurances to independent investigators and the BBC.
The Post Office asserted in hundreds of wrongful prosecutions that sub-postmasters must have been to blame for discrepancies in accounts.
And in certain key cases, such as the landmark Bates vs Post Office, the organisation insisted that the software could not be accessed remotely.
However, a report by Deloitte, which had been coordinated by Mr Williams, stated in 2014 that in fact it could be.
When asked by inquiry counsel Jason Beer how Mr Williams had missed this, despite it being a key concern, he said: “I genuinely don’t recall what was happening at the time.”
In trying to reconstruct his thought processes, Mr Williams said “it’s hard to explain” why he missed it.
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