In full: Architect of faulty Horizon software gives evidence | Post Office Inquiry

A former Fujitsu engineer who helped designed the beleaguered Horizon IT system will give evidence to the Post Office Inquiry today.
Gareth Jenkins helped create the bug-ridden software that inaccurately recorded shortfalls on sub-postmaster accounts, leading to more than 900 wrongfully prosecutions.
Mr Jenkins was used by the Post Office as an expert witness in sub-postmaster prosecutions - giving evidence in-person in the 2010 trial of sub-postmistress Seema Misra, who was pregnant when she was handed a 15-month prison sentence.
However, the organisation received legal advice in 2013 that warned Mr Jenkins’s failure to disclose bugs in the Horizon software “fatally undermined” his credibility as an expert witness.
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[@merlinjones2660]

He thinks from a computer programmer point of view ie its not just how it happens but what other parts of the computer program any fault will interact with he is an expert on horizon only ,but the faults where also in some equipment post office supplied but also the landlines to some sub post masters business address ,where faulty

[@cassandratq9301]

Yes - competent on the trees in Horizon, but utterly incapable of taking a "forest view" as a witness, as he was required to do. His poor instruction was totally on POL/FJ.
If they'd done even the minimum on that, they'd have quicky realized he was the wrong man for the job. He himself said he preferred his "day job" chasing + fixing bugs!

[@peteredwards3592]

I can't help feeling sorry for this guy. He seems to have been set up as the fall guy by those at the top being paid millions for their incompetence. He comes across as a genuine, honest individual who has been placed in an awful position. He is certainly a better witness than most of the PO management.

[@cassandratq9301]

100% agree. A technocrat too eager to please + incapable of thinking broadly enough to ask the right questions about his role in the legal process. Totally on POL/ FJ re his non-existent education on being an expert witness.