FUJ00121979
FUJ00121979
Witness Statement
(CJ Act 1967, s9; MC Act 1980, ss 5A(3)(a)
and §B, MC Rules 1981, r70)
Statement of William Lestie Mitchell
Age if under 18 Over 18 (If over 18 insert ‘over 18')
This statement (consisting of -02- pages each signed by me) is true to the best of my knowledge and
belief and I make it knowing that, if it is tendered in evidence, I shall be liable to prosecution if I have
wilfully stated in it anything which I know to be false or do not believe true.
Dated the 14" day of June
sna GRO
I have been-emproyervy-rapisu-oervices, Post Office Account, formally ICL Pathway Ltd.,
2004
since the 22" September 2003 as Security Manager where I am responsible for IT Security
and the Audit Retrieval Query service. I have working knowledge of the computer system
known as Horizon, which is a computerised accounting system used by Post Office Ltd. I am
authorised by Fujitsu Services to undertake and supervise extractions of audit data held on the
Horizon system and to obtain information regarding system transaction information processed
on the Horizon system.
Further to the statement submitted by Penelope Anne Thomas regarding extraction of data for
ARQ's 320 and 321 relating to Urmston Post Office, FAD Code 060422. I confirmed that at
Fujitsu Services, Forest Road, Feltham, TW13 7EJ between the 25” and the 28" May 2004 I
carried out a comparison of the Urmston ARQ data as extracted by Beatrice Neneh Lowther
and forwarded to Post Office Limited on CD as ARQs 320 and 321 and the Urmston ARQ as
extracted by Penelope Anne Thomas and submitted to Post Office Limited on the 15” April
2004 as Exhibit PT/01
Lowther's absence I_
The recreation of the data and the check was due to Beatrice Neneh
planned court date.
These comparison checks revealed the following omissions in the data provided by Beatrice
Neneh Lowther as ARQ, No’ 320. The ARQ 320 covers the period 02/01/03 — 08/01/03,
totalling 7 query days. No end of day log off was present resulting in the omission of 796
entries for the 3° January 2003. The root cause for the omission of data from this ARQ is when
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FUJ00121979
FUJ00121979
Witness Statement
(CJ Act 1967, s9; MC Act 1980, ss 5A(3)(a) and 5B, MC Rules 1981, r 70)
Continuation of statement of William Leslie Mitchell
an ARQ is retrieved it is necessary to add additional days to the end of the requested date span
to ensure a full and complete capture of the data which may have been harvested at different
times. The operator should then confirm that an end of day log off is present and extfact only
the required data files. In this case the operator added two additional days to each ARQ, which
is normally sufficient, but it appears did not confirm that an end of day log off was present. 7:
All records to which I refer in my statement form part of the records relating to the business of
Fujitsu Services. These were compiled during the ordinary course of business from information
supplied by persons who have or may reasonably be supposed to have personal knowledge of
the matter dealt with in the information supplied, but are unlikely to have any recollection of the
information or cannot be traced. As part of my duties, I have access to these records. Having
reviewed both sets of data I have confirmed that the omissions made within the data provided
by Beatrice Neneh Lowther have not been repeated in the ARQ data provided by Penelope
Anne Thomas as Exhibit PT/02 and that the data is complete in accordance with the original
ARQ.
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Occupation:. Security Manager Date and place of birth:
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