i said, are you absolutely sure? yes, i will alter the figures to prove to you that we can do this. he did that. i said to him, for your information, as a federation representative, we ve always been of the opinion that you cannot in any way, shape or form remotely access a sub postmaster s accounts. he said, well, we can. i said, where to go from here? , at which point he said, i ll alter the figures back to where they were. otherwise this sub postmaster won t balance tonight, and then i was promptly escorted back upstairs with the look of the realisation of, 0ops, i ve put my foot in it not from my point of view, from my chaperone s point of view. they ushered me out of the building as quickly as possible. the fujitsu staff used that third line access to correct data on the system when might have been corrupted in some way. but of course from a legal standpoint, the existence of unrestricted and unauditable access by fujitsu staff calls into question accusations that