Post Office inquiry live: Lawyer Rodric Williams dismissed concerned sub-postmaster as 'bluffer' - BBC News
Concerned sub-postmaster was dismissed as 'bluffer' by Post Office lawyer - BBC News
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The Post Office's senior lawyer Rodric Williams has finished giving evidence to the Inquiry for the day. Here are some of the key things he said:
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Williams called former sub-postmaster, Tim McCormack, who was trying to warn others about Horizon a "bluffer" in a 2015 email to colleagues
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The inquiry also saw a 2014 email, in which Williams told his colleagues: "We don't need to do research on Horizon" and if sub-postmasters did not like it "they can choose not to provide services for us"
Thanks for joining our coverage of the Post Office Inquiry today. It has been a long day of questioning for Post Office lawyer Rodric Williams and he'll be back tomorrow at 09:45 BST for another day.
"I don't think any action was taken," Williams said, when speaking about the discovery that the statements given by Fujitsu employee Gareth Jenkins to prosecute sub-postmasters were problematic
We are pausing this page now but we'll also be back tomorrow to bring you all the latest lines once again.
He looked uncomfortable when quizzed about the bugs in the Horizon system, saying: "I had no idea what the impact on prosecutions might have been"
If you want to read more about the inquiry and why a former sub-postmaster thinks Williams should be removed from administering Horizon redress schemes, click here.
He claimed the Criminal Case Review Commission (CCRC) was "jumping down every rabbit hole" by asking the Post Office to reveal information about bugs in the Horizon system
Today's page was edited by Aoife Walsh, Adam Durbin, James Harness and me.
Also today, former sub-postmaster Lee Castleton has called for Williams, who is still employed by the Post Office, to be removed from administering Horizon redress schemes
The writers were Sophie Abdulla, Imogen Foulkes, Ali Abbas Ahmadi, Seher Asaf, Gabriela Pomeroy, Catherine McGowan and Barbara Tasch.
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