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Post Office inquiry live: Lawyer Rodric Williams dismissed concerned sub-postmaster as 'bluffer' - BBC News Post Office inquiry live: Lawyer Rodric Williams dismissed concerned sub-postmaster as 'bluffer' - BBC News
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The inquiry now looks at a handwritten document, which Williams confirms he wrote. As it approached the end of the day, the inquiry also heard more about the involvement of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC).
Beer goes through the note and asks Williams to read it out loud, asking questions at various points about what he meant. It's a slow process as Williams often struggles to read his own handwriting. An email sent to Rodric Williams in 2016 from its group leader requested more information and documents. That included "transaction logs" the CCRC was not able to find in relation to the Seema Misra case.
In one section, Williams wrote that "reports didn't contain all they should have". A note underneath says that as a consequence cases would have to be reviewed to find out if a case against a particular defendant "was prejudiced by absence of info". Williams forwarded the email to a number of colleagues, the inquiry was shown. He said he wanted to discuss how they could "force the issue", saying the CCRC seemed to be "jumping down every rabbit hole they're directed to".
Based on some notes in the document, Beer asks whether it is correct to say that without the Second Sight review the Post Office would have continued its prosecution as it was, assuming Horizon was working - as Fujitsu IT employee Gareth Jenkins said it was. Williams told the inquiry his impression was lots of people were raising lots of issues that would get looked into, and not go anywhere. He said this would extend the review without reaching conclusions.
Williams agrees the Post Office would have. He was pressed on this by Jason Beer KC.
Beer goes on to ask whether another section shows Jenkins had told Second Sight about certain bugs with Horizon that he had not initially disclosed and if Williams was wondering what else they might discover? "I think that's just me writing a short email" he added.
Williams replies that he can't be sure, but that it could be the case.
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