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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jasper Jolly

Ex-Fujitsu engineer admits changing court testimony at request of Post Office

Gareth Jenkins arrives at the at Post Office Horizon  inquiry
Gareth Jenkins said the bugs in the Horizon IT system were ‘well controlled’. Photograph: Tayfun Salcı/Zuma Press/Rex/Shutterstock

A former IT engineer has admitted he changed crucial expert court testimony at the request of the Post Office during wrongful prosecutions of branch operators.

Gareth Jenkins, a former senior engineer at the contractor Fujitsu, on Tuesday told the public inquiry into one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in British history that lawyers had asked him to change witness statements.

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