The Post Office wrote to sub-postmasters in 1997 admitting: 'Although a number of software faults have been fixed, it is unlikely that every fault has been banished from the Capture program'
At least 36 former sub-postmasters or their families have now come forward to claim they suffered unexplained accounting problems while using the Capture IT system, which was developed in-house by the Post Office and rolled out to branches in the 1990s.
Documents shared with Mr Jones’ office relate to an upgrade to version C70 of the Capture software carried out by the Post Office in January 1997. “With each upgrade of the software, the number of bugs seemed to have grown,” Mr Jones told the House of Commons on Monday night. The fault with the highest number is 9611230123 and Mr Sedgwick therefore suggests that it was identified on 23 November 1996 and is fault number 123.: “It’s clear from the release notes that the Post Office is trying to strike a helpful tone.The Post Office wrote to sub-postmasters advising them of faults to its Capture software in January 1997
The Government has agreed to appoint an independent expert to examine a set of 30-year-old floppy disks which contain original copies of the Capture software. It is understood it is hoped the findings will be reported back within weeks.understands the expert will be set clear terms of reference to determine firstly whether it was prone to faults, and secondly if those faults could have led to a sub-postmaster being wrongfully accused of having a shortfall in their cash accounts.
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