Gareth Jenkins who worked at Fujitsu for the whole of his professional career before retiring in 2015
Screen grab of former Fujitsu engineer Gareth Jenkins giving evidence to the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry at Aldwych House in central London He is currently the subject of a Metropolitan Police investigation on suspicion of perjury and perverting the course of justice. He had warned in an earlier email to another Fujitsu employee that the line “is potentially very damaging” and should be removed to “ensure we are not embarrassed at court”.
Pressed by Mr Beer as to how he had formed this view, Mr Jenkins said it had emerged from “informal conversations” with staff at Fujitsu’s software support centre . Mr Jenkins said he did not “think I would have said that” but added that the general details of remote access were accurate.He added that he thought Fujitsu would “have been using that facility responsibly and doing it when they needed to correct errors that had occurred in the branches”.
Mr Jenkins replied: “I would probably have skimmed through it but clearly it hadn’t stuck in my mind beyond the time… so, yes, I probably would have opened it up and read it but I have no recollection of doing that.”