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IT chief who tutored postmasters in Horizon system said tech ‘was flawed from start’
Horizon was supposed to smooth the process for them but it created discrepancies
A TECH chief who taught sub-postmasters the Horizon system said: “It was flawed from the start.”
Naomi Walker, 50, claimed bosses did nothing when she complained of its failings.
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The training manager, who tutored hundreds on the system from 1997 to 2000, said: “Dozens of us knew there were problems.
“We did express that we thought there were glitches and I feel that we were ignored.
“I could only report it to the person above me. Nobody knows how far up the chain it went.”
Naomi was contracted by Fujitsu-owned International Computers Limited, which developed the £1billion Horizon technology.
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Naomi, of Northumberland, went on to work on a hotline for desperate branch managers.
Horizon accounts were used to accuse more than 700 sub- postmasters of false accounting and theft.
Their convictions are to be quashed.
The Government tried to block Fujitsu from public IT contracts in the 2010s over the firm’s alleged “incompetence”, insiders claimed last night.
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But lawyers blocked the move, called “Project Sushi”.
Lord Cameron, meanwhile, said he could not recall “being aware” of the scale of the scandal when PM from 2010 to 2016.
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