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From: Marilyn Benjamin
Sent: Mon 01/03/2010 3:47:00 PM (UTC)
To: Post Office Security@POSTOFFICE[Post Office Security@POSTOFFICE]
Ce: John Longman... _}I Warwick Tatfordf.
Subject: REGINA v SEEMA MISRA GUILDFORD CROWN COURT TRIAL - 15TH MARCH 2010
Attachment: 4th interim technical expert's report to the Court 2010-02-12 vO 1.doc
Attachment: 5th interim technical expert's report to the Court 2010-02-25 v0 1 (2).doc
T now enclose a copy of the 4th and Sth Defence Expert Reports. I also enclose Gareth Jenkins latest E-Mail
dated Ist March 2010 for your information. The content does not appear to be very helpful.
(See attached file: 4th interim technical expert's report to the Court 2010-02-12 v0 1.doc)(See attached file:
Sth interim technical expert's report to the Court 2010-02-25 v0 I (2).doc)
Jarnail A Singh
Senior Lawyer
Criminal Law Team
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D CROWN COURT TRIAL - ISTH
Jarnail,
Thanks for the information, which I've now read through.
I think I can summarise the situation as follows:
1.Ms Misera says initially identified that the sub post office was short of
cash by about £80 - £90K
2. She tried to cover this up while she repaid the loses which she thought
was due to staff theft
3. By the time of the audit in Jan 2008 she was £73K short suggesting she
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had made good about £10K of the losses
4, When she went to court, she saw an article in Computer Weekly indicating
that Horizon was unreliable and decided to jump on the bandwagon.
5. Note that there is no evidence to support any of the cases referenced in
the Computer Weekly articles and there is case law showing the reliability
of Horizon. (The case of Marine Drive which I think was referred to in the
Computer Weekly article.)
However I don't see how anything here changes the fact that she falsified
the accounts or that money was missing.
What I still don't understand is exactly what it is that the defence is
claiming in terms of where exactly Horizonmight have "lost" this money
rather than her or her staff stealing it. Therefore unless we can get a
clear statement as to exactly what is being looked for and when the system
allegedly made mistakes, I don't thinkthere is anything I can do. (I do
appreciate that it is up to the Prosecution to prove Horizon is reliable
rather than the defence to prove it isn't, but it is always difficult to
prove that there are no errors - particularly over such a long period of
time.)
Surely it is down to the Post Office investigators to get to the bottom of
exactly where there is anything in dispute. At that point I might be able
to assist with some technical knowledge to help interpret the various logs
to support such areas of dispute.
I'll leave Penny to continue the discussions she is currently having with
the Post Office investigators until there is something concrete for me to
investigate.
Regards
Gareth
Gareth Jenkins
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Applications Architect
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jarnail.a.singhi
Sent: 26 February 2010 16:38
To: Jenkins Gareth GI
Cc: Thomas Penny
Subject: REGINA v SEEMA MISRA GUILDFORD CROWN COURT TRIAL - 15TH MARCH
2010
Thank you for your E-Mail of today. As per discussions I now enclose:-
1 Copy Case Summary.
2 Copy Indictment
3 Copy Defence Statement
4 Copy of the interview
5 Copy Defence Expert's name is Charles Alistair McLachlan, }
Telephone number and mobile to
follow.
It is important that we are pro active on this and that you contact him as
soon as possible with a view to concluding this.
I appreciate all the help and assistance in this case.
I hope the above assists but if you require anything further or wish to
discuss in more detail please telephone me.
(See attached file: 258932AI.doc) (See attached file: 258932 IND.doc) (See
attached file: Defence Statement Scanned.pdf) (See attached file: Interview
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- Scanned document .pdf)
Jarnail A Singh
Senior Lawyer
Criminal Law Team
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