Former senior Fujitsu engineer Gareth Jenkins said before the Post Office Inquiry that he did not conceal errors in the branch accounting system during Seema Misra’s 2010 trial, which was seen at the time as a critical test case.
The 15-month jail sentence for Mrs. Misra was a result of his expert witness testimony.
When her lawyer questioned him about the controversy on his fourth day in the witness box, Mr. Jenkins maintained he was being truthful about what he knew about Horizon’s flaws.
Page stated that “hundreds of people had already had their lives ruined to protect it” and that by the time of her client’s trial, Horizon had become a “out of control monster”.
“Isn’t the truth that you knew Horizon was a monster and it was causing harm?” she asked Mr. Jenkins.
In response, he said, “No, that’s not how I felt.”
Mr. Jenkins responded to Ms. Page’s accusation that he “threw muck in the jury’s eyes” by saying, “I did not.
She told Mr. Jenkins that he was lying when he didn’t disclose to the court that he was aware that transactions were being injected at the counter.
