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We're now looking at an email from Susan Crichton to Post Office lawyer Jarnail Singh. It is from June 2012. We're now in June 2012.
In it, Crichton wrote: "If we decide not to go ahead with criminal prosecutions are there any risks for POL [Post Office Limited]?". Blake shows us a proposal from investigators Second Sight to carry out an independent review of past fraud and theft cases to determine whether facts supported charges that had been brought forward against individuals.
Crichton tells the inquiry they were worried about the independent review of Horizon happening at the same time as the prosecutions. Blake asks Crichton if the proposal would look at individual cases.
Julian Blake then asks why she wanted to know about the risks the prosecutions could have on the Post Office. "Correct," she replies.
"It wasn't because I knew there was anything wrong with Horizon necessarily, but I just felt it was important that we pause these cases whilst we did the review," Crichton adds. In the proposal from 2012, Second Sight said it would study and selectively test the Horizon IT system in order to find any "black hole" or defect in the programme.
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