The Horizon IT Inquiry in London was shown slides from a presentation about the system prepared by a former Post Office manager, which claimed Alan Bates clearly struggled with accounting .
The 70-year-old laughed as he suggested that Nick Read, who attended the inquiry today, could have sorted out remediation for his case there and then while they were in the room together.
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The campaigning sub-postmaster will give his version of events to the inquiry on Tuesday ahead of appearances by senior executives from the Post Office and Fujitsu, which built the computer software at the heart of the scandal.