Gareth Jenkins, a former senior Fujitsu engineer, was one of the architects of the Horizon accounting systems and one of the only individuals with in-depth understanding of their inner workings, making him invaluable to the prosecution process.
During his testimony on Wednesday, he stated that he had not received a letter from Bond Pearce solicitors outlining his impartiality responsibility as an expert witness.
Pearce attorneys, who elucidated his expert witness obligation of impartiality.
During his second day of testimony, he admitted to viewing the paper in 2006 after learning that he had been copied on the communication, when questioned by Jason Beer KC, the inquiry’s counsel.
Mr. Jenkins clarified, though, that his main emphasis would have been on responding to inquiries on Horizon that were included in a different attachment.
Written four years before to Mr. Jenkins’s appearance as an expert witness in the 2010 case of Seema Misra, who was unfairly sentenced to fifteen months in prison while pregnant, the letter concerned the Post Office’s prosecution of postmaster Lee Castleton.
