Gareth Jenkins: An 'unreliable god' at the heart of the Post Office scandal

The former Fujitsu engineer who helped design the faulty Horizon software at the centre of the Post Office scandal is set to go under the spotlight this week. You might not have heard of Gareth Jenkins until now but he has become a key figure during the long-running Post Office Inquiry. A top lawyer working for the Post Office once described Gareth Jenkins as an "Unreliable god", the inquiry heard. Mr Jenkins appeared as an expert witness in a number of Post Office prosecutions of sub-postmasters. Documents obtained by the BBC earlier this year showed that a Post Office prosecutor suggested Mr Jenkins should rephrase some of his court testimony used against Seema Misra, which strengthened his assertions over the robustness of Horizon.

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