Seema Misra was eight weeks pregnant when she was handed a 15-month prison sentence after being accused of stealing £74,000 from her Post Office branch.
which resulted in account discrepancies days before legal proceedings which saw a pregnant subpostmistress jailed began and subsequently lied to “cover up” that fact, an inquiry has heard.
The report, sent to Mr Singh just three days before Seema Misra’s case began in October 2010, described a bug “that will result” and offered an explanation for apparent cases of theft among sub-postmasters, counsel to the inquiry Jason Beer KC said. Mr Singh said he also did not know how to save or print documents during his employment at the organisation and had to ask others to do it for him.
He continued: “Of course, it would be highly embarrassing for POL were it to be suggested that Fujitsu had informed some part of POL and that information had never reached the security team.
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