Fujitsu expert: I didn’t think Horizon was a monster

Giving his fourth day of evidence at the inquiry into the Horizon scandal, Mr Jenkins was questioned by Ms Page, a barrister who represented Horizon victims including Seema Misra.

Ms Misra was pregnant with her second child when she was convicted of theft and sent to jail in 2010. She later told the BBC she would have killed herself had she not been pregnant at the time.

In a charged atmosphere at the hearing, with Ms Misra sitting next to her, Ms Page accused Mr Jenkins of being a “Fujitsu man”.

She said Mr Jenkins “knew the Misra trial was a test case for Horizon”.

Ms Page alleged his role was to make sure Horizon had a “clean bill of health” and that he had “tailored” his evidence accordingly.

“My role was to tell the truth,” Mr Jenkins said. “I attempted to answer as best I could the questions I was asked”.

Ms Page responded: “Never mind whether a by-product of protecting the monster was that a woman was sent to jail”.

Mr Jenkins said he was “sorry for had happened to Mrs Misra” but he felt that was down the to way that the Post Office had behaved and wasn’t “purely down to me”.

“I clearly got trapped into doing things I shouldn’t have done, but that was not intentional on my behalf,” he said.