As 'heat' built from campaigners, tech boss kept telling MPs everything was fine
The former CTO of the Post Office had"nagging doubts" about the Horizon system at the center of one of the most far-reaching miscarriages of justice in UK history, yet he continued to sign off statements to MPs attesting to its security and reliability.
Flora Page, the lawyer representing former subpostmasters Lee Castleton and Seema Misra in the inquiry, suggested Young"didn't bother to find out" whether information given to MPs was accurate. "At the point that you've got more and more subpostmasters… it grew… the JFSA, saying the system was wrong. If you didn't have that nagging doubt, you've got a bit of a problem. It acts almost as a conscience check.
"I've no doubt about that because I thought that might be better policed, but it was addressed in a relatively short timescale," he said."It's only with the hindsight of this inquiry and some of what I've learnt from the Second Sight Report that I now know, through that benefit, that some of the audit logging… wasn't as locked down as best practice would indicate and it was open to abuse.
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