A Post Office fraud investigator who told an inquiry he was never informed of issues with the Horizon IT system by superiors, is 'not technically minded' - as he denied 'acting life a Mafia gangster'.
against lisa brennan in relation to events in 2001 close to the time of the rollout of horizon which we know rolled out from 2000 onwards. according to the limited available documentation the prosecution case where she paid out cash for allowance and benefit vouchers, she would make more cash than was permitted by the voucher and kept the difference yourself stop the evidence of that depended on the difference between the amount horizon showed and had been entered onto the system and the lesser amount of the voucher. lisa brennan admitted the discrepancies, she said they were errors on her part because of problems at home and pressures at work, she denied theft and said she did not know what had happened to the money. the post office except this was an unexplained shortfall case and that the evidence from horizon was essential to the case, her explanation was she must admit keystroke errors when entering
situation. had you mentioned the seema misra case, miss mcdonald might have realised that she wasn t the only one. i might have realised that she wasn t the only one- the only one. i never said that to her, that is the only one. i never said that to her, that is incorrect the only one. i never said that to her, that is incorrect that - her, that is incorrect that statement. her, that is incorrect that statement. ~ ., ., ~ her, that is incorrect that statement. ~ ., statement. well, we will look at that because statement. well, we will look at that because we statement. well, we will look at that because we have statement. well, we will look at that because we have seen i statement. well, we will look at that because we have seen and| statement. well, we will look at i that because we have seen and that can come down thank you we have seen lisa brennan being told in her interview that nobody else s is making mistakes. i’sare interview that nobody else s is making mistakes
that were convicted. we victims? that 900 isjust the people that were convicted. we are - victims? that 900 isjust the people that were convicted. we are talking | that were convicted. we are talking about thousands of people being involved in this because there is one for example sub postmaster who was not convicted shazia sadiq, she was not convicted shazia sadiq, she was ordered to pay back tens of thousands of pounds due to the mistake of the horizon it system and she said her life was ruined and her family she said was having to pay this back over several years, she could not afford to pay back and she lost her home so we are notjust talking about people in ended up in court, we are talking about people who said their lives were ruined by being forced by the post office to get back money they said they did not owe. in terms of what we will hear from the inquiry today, we will be hearing from stephen bradshaw, one of the investigators about his role in pursuing these
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