May 10, 2024
Post Office boss denies ‘covering tracks’
A Post Office boss has denied deleting emails that may have shown a key report he wrote was inaccurate weeks after he wrote it. Rod Ismay's 2010 internal report was widely cited by the Post Office as proof that Horizon was reliable. The inquiry heard today that within weeks of filing the report, he was shown evidence that undermined one of its key assertions - that there was no 'back door' and no way for the data in Post Office branches to be changed without the sub-Postmasters' knowledge. The inquiry also saw how Mr Ismay had forwarded an email from Post Office boss David Smith greeting the conviction of Seema Misra as "Brilliant news". Mr Beer asked if he was regarded as a "[safe] pair of hands who would always defend Horizon on behalf of the Post Office" - which Mr Ismay denied.
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