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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Mark Sweney

Fixing Horizon bugs would have been too costly, Post Office inquiry told

Gerald Barnes
Gerald Barnes, a software developer at Fujitsu, said Horizon’s error handling ‘wasn’t as good as it could have been if designed properly from the start’. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

A Fujitsu software developer who raised the issue of bugs in the Horizon IT system said the company did not properly fix the problem because it would have been too expensive and time-consuming, the inquiry into the Post Office scandal has heard.

Faults in Fujitsu’s Horizon IT system resulted in the Post Office wrongfully pursuing and prosecuting more than 900 post office operators for theft, fraud and false accounting in what has been called the most widespread miscarriage of justice in UK history.

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