Post Office inquiry told that fixing bugs was too costly and time consuming

Inquiry also hears how data was manipulated before being used in criminal trials

Penny Horwood
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Fujitsu HQ, Bracknell, Berkshire

The Post Office inquiry heard from two former Fujitsu staffers yesterday

A software developer at Fujitsu who raised the issue of bugs within the Horizon software that the Post Office rolled out from the late 1990's has told the inquiry into the Post Office scandal that ...

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