A senior Post Office lawyer told an engineer to provide a court with evidence that would help with “preserving” its IT system before a trial which led to a wrongly convicted pregnant subpostmaster being jailed, an inquiry has heard.
Jarnail Singh sent an email to Fujitsu engineer Gareth Jenkins in March 2010, asking him to find the “shortest span” of transaction logs to “disprove or rebut” a defence expert’s conclusions that the Horizon system had faults.
