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Jarnail
Gareth’s contact details below.
Simon
From: Newsome Pete [mailto ~—"GRO “
Sent: 18 September 2012 09: —_—_—_—_—
To: Simon Baker
Cc: Jenkins Gareth GI; Godeseth Torstein
Subject: RE: URGENT EXPERT REPORT ON HORIZON SYSTEM
Simon
No problem with the contact. In the mean time I am checking the documents I think will give us a head start.
Pete
From: Simon Baker [mailta.
Sent: 17 September 2012 1
To: Newsome Pete
Subject: FW: URGENT EXPERT REPORT ON HORIZON SYSTEM
Pete
Are you ok with Jarnail contacting Gareth when he gets back, or do you want him to go through you?
Simon
From: Jarnail A Singh
Sent: 17 September 2012 12:14
To: Simon Baker; Newsome Pete
Subject: RE: URGENT EXPERT REPORT ON HORIZON SYSTEM
Thanks Simon This is very important as the report needs to in hand very quickly on Gareth return. Are you able let me
have Gareth’s contact details including his email address and date when he is due to return from his annual leave.
Thanks
Jarnail
From: Simon Baker
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Sent: 17 September 2012 10:18
To: Newsome Pete
Cc: Jarnail A Singh
Subject: RE: URGENT EXPERT REPORT ON HORIZON SYSTEM
Pete
This is for something different from the data analysis that second sight will be doing.
Jarnail is looking for a report that shows why we believe Horizon is a robust system, to counteract the claims that
there are problems with the system.
I don’t think Jarnail is looking for something too detailed, maybe a 2-3 pages.
Simon
From: Newsome Pete [mailto.
Sent: 17 September 2012 09:44
To: Simon Baker
Subject: FW: URGENT EXPERT REPORT ON HORIZON SYSTEM
Simon
This is the mail mentioned in our call.
Pete
From: Jarnail A Singh [mailto
Sent: 13 September 2012 15
To: Thomas Penny
Cc: Hugh Flemington; John M Scott
Subject: URGENT EXPERT REPORT ON HORIZON SYSTEM
Dear Penny
It was nice to talk with you this morning.
As the Post Office continues to have absolute confidence in the robustness and integrity of its Horizon system and its
branch accounting processes, it had no hesitation in agreeing to an external review of these few individual cases
referred by members of parliaments In order to provide assurance to the interested parties, independent Auditors, 2°¢
Sight were appointed. Also in order to take consistent approach in cases where Horizon has been challenged and to
deal with disclosure an investigation officer was appointed to assist in the contested cases, civil and criminal, in
which the Horizon system has been challenged. The officers has provided a comprehensive report concluding in old
and existing cases only a general complaints has been made by sub post masters without giving details of compliant
or specific areas of compliant or even no explanation has been offered as to what has gone wrong. The officer has
Confirmed that the Horizon system has never been successfully challenged. The officer has completed a report and
also prepared a summary of those cases where there is a proper attack on the system. We need to appoint an expert
this being such an specialist area we need one of your members to file this role as matter of urgency with court cases
upon us.
The expert will need to address the report to the following issues:
1) A description of the horizon system (In laymen’s' terms so that a jury can understand what it is and what it does)
2) A declaration that it has yet to be attacked successfully.
3) A summary of the basic attacks made on the system concentrating on any expert reports served in past cases. If
there are none then state that no expert has yet been found by any defence team civil or criminal to attack the system.
(at the moment there seems to be little more than griping by defendants that the system must be at fault without
saying how)
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4) Plainly, like all accounting systems, there is room for human error (Keying in wrong amounts etc) but the expert
should be able to state that innocent human error is unlikely to produce the types of discrepancies of many thousands
of pounds over many months.
A report along these lines will go a long way to putting this issue to bed.
My telephone number is f
Regards
Jarnail Singh
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