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Engineer insists Post Office software did a 'good job'

Expert evidence from Gareth Jenkins, a former senior Fujitsu engineer, was used to convict subpostmasters

A key architect of the Post Office’s disastrous Horizon IT system, whose expert evidence was used to convict subpostmasters, has defended the software and insisted that it did a “good job”. Gareth Jenkins, a former senior Fujitsu engineer who is at the centre of a police investigation into the scandal, disputed the damning assessment of Horizon in a landmark High Court case. Appearing at the public inquiry into the scandal, he disputed the findings of Judge Peter Fraser, in the High Court trial led by the campaigner Alan Bates, that Horizon was “not remotely robust”.

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