POL00029641 - Email from Hugh Flemington to Susan Crichton and Jarnail A Singh and others, Re: ‘FW Timline for Local Suspense Problem’

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From: Hugh Flemington]

on Hugh Flemington
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Sent: 04/07/2013 07:51:32

To: susan Crichton wn
cc: Rodric Williams;

Subject:FW: Timline for Local Suspense Problem

We need to keep each other copied in on everything

Hugh Flemington I Head of Legal

148 Old Street, LONDON, ECIV 9HQ

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From: Rodric Williams

Sent: 03 July 2013 20:43

To: Rod Ismay; Lesley J] Sewell

Cc: Andrew Winn; Hugh Flemington; Simon Baker
Subject: RE: Timline for Local Suspense Problem

All — here’s my summary of my call with Andy Winn. Andy ~ please make amend / correct as necessary.
Thanks, Redric

e Issue first surfaced at POL Finance Service Centre (FSC) on 6 February 2012, at the clase of a Branch Trading
period

e The Issue raised concerned the £9799.88 discrepancy at the Willen branch

* FSC might have proactively contacted SPM given the size of the discrepancy

e FSC investigated, saw that it looked wrong, and brought the account back to balance (i.e. £0) at no cost to the
SPMR

« FSC would have monitored the Willen branch to see what happened the following month

e Over the next few weeks, as the rest of the Branch Trading data for the same period was processed, the other
13 branch anomalies were noted

¢ Those other branches’ accounts were brought to balance, again at no cost to the subpostmaster

¢ This was not perceived to be a significant issue given the small number of branches affected and the small sums
involved

e On6 February 2013, the Willen SPMR contacted POL National Business Support Centre (NBSC) to report the
same discrepancy in his Branch Trading as the previous year
e NBSC passed this on to Fujitsu between 6 and 8 February 2013
e Fujitsu then notified FSC of the problem on 28 February 2013
© Fujitsu resolved B14 on 25 April 2013

Rodric Williams I Litigation Lawyer

CD) 148 Old Street, LONDON, ECLV 9H1Q
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From: Rod Ismay

Sent: 03 July 2013 17:19

To: Lesley J Sewell; Rodric Williams

Subject: FW: Timline for Local Suspense Problem

Lesley — one of your other questions was for further information on the timeline here.

Andy has advised me that he has discussed timeline with Rodric today.

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Rodric — you may already have shared that with Lesley, but if not please would be able to do so and copy me too.

Thanks, Rod

From: Lesley J Sewell

Sent: 03 July 2013 14:36

To: Rod Ismay

Subject: Fwd: Timline for Local Suspense Problem

Sent from my iPad

Begin forwarded message:

From: Jenkins Gareth GI <
Date: 3 July 2013 14:10:38 BST
To: Lesley J Sewell <I
Ce: Davidson James <

Subject: RE: Timline for Local Suspense Problem

Lesley,

, Simon Baker
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Call was raised to HSD at 4:51pm on 25" February from NBSC {ie POU’s Service Desk). From what I can
make out there was somebody called Ibrahim in NBSC who raised it. Perhaps NBSC can track it back
from there?

Call log at Horizon Service Desk says:

INCIDENT MANAGEMENT

Date/Time Raised: Feb 25 2013 4:51PM
Priority: ¢
Contact Nam
Contact Phone:

Ibrahim at NBSC

PSol

Originator's reference: A2401368
Product Serial No:
Product Site: 011458

Transfer Note: Transfer Group from ‘POA-HSD IMT' to 'POA-FJ-PEAK'

The Branch as an unexplained discrepancy. They balanced and rolled trading
period on 6 Feb, they have one stock unit AA and this was balanced with a
loss of £39.57 which was transferred to local suspense however the figure
that was cleared out from local suspense was much higher £9839.45.

I have carried out transaction logs for all transactions from date range 31
Jan to 06 Feb. Branch has submitted copies of the final balance reports from
TP 10 BP4 and TP10 BP 5 the balance report for TP10 BPS shows discrepancy
transferred of £39.57 and then discrepancy resolved £9839.45. The transaction
log completed for all transaction does not show any other figures being
entered into or removed from housekeeping/local suspense account.

Node 1
06/02/2013 16:50 to 16:51

AAR TP 10 BP4/5

Incident History:

2013-02-25 16:51:20 [ Richardson, Mark ]
INIT : Create a new request/incident/problem/change/issue

2013-02-25 16:54:19 [ Richardson, Mark ]
zneun_en_poa : Open Notification

2013-02-25 16:54:19 [ Richardson, Mark ]
zneut_en_poa : Transfer Notification

2013-02-25 16:54:54 [ Richardson, Mark ]
zneut_en_poa : Transfer Notification

Regards

Gareth
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Gareth Jenkins

Distinguished Engineer
Business Applications Architect
Post Office Account

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Sent: 03 July 2013 13
To: Jenkins Gareth GI

Cc: Davidson James; Simon Baker
Subject: Re: Timline for Local Suspense Problem

Gareth

Can we get details of this call - I'm interested in the detail and who raised it.
I do need this today if possible.

Many thanks

Sent from my iPad

On 28 Jun 2013, at 10:41, "Jenkins Gareth GI" : #&+&#& FF wrote:

Lesley,

The Local suspense Problem was first raised as a call on the Horizon Help Desk by NBSC at
4:S1pm on Monday 25" February 2013. HSD Ref is A2401368. Internal Ref PCO223870.

Problem diagnosed by Thursday 28" February and a conf call held with POL to brief them as to
the issue and its scope.

Final set of info sent to POL on 15" March 2013.

I hope that gives you what you need.

Regards

Gareth

Gareth Jenkins
Distinguished Engineer
Business Applications Architect
Post Office Account
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