Feb 10, 2024
Ex-Fujitsu boss 'shocked' by Post Office's actions
The Horizon team assured him the Post Office was managing the prosecutions "Competently and honestly", he said. He started his email by saying: "I am shocked by the Post Office's actions in prosecuting so many innocent people. It is right that there is a public inquiry to investigate what happened and I am looking forward to their report which I am confident will provide much more insight than my very limited visibility of Horizon operations could provide." This was a crucial period in the development of the Horizon scandal - the Post Office was securing the convictions of around 50 cases a year at that stage, accusing sub-postmasters of taking money that only appeared to be missing because of faults in the Horizon computer system designed by Fujitsu. Mr Gilbert says: "I discussed with members of the Horizon project team and came away with the belief that prosecutions brought by the Post Office were being managed competently and honestly. At the time I was not alone in this belief, and I note that the national mainstream media including the BBC did not report on the Post Office and Horizon until, I think, late 2014.". "I was aware that, in common with other complex computer programs, Horizon had bugs and I understood details of these bugs were shared with the Post Office so that the Post Office could take account of them. Speed of bug fixes was monitored closely by the Post Office," Mr Gilbert says.
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