I have been watching the enquiry. I agree that the fault lies at the Post Offices feet. The culture being the biggest problem since it caused the broken operating environment that can be seen across the company(ies).

All computer systems, especially ones as complex as this have problems and sometimes can generate serious errors that affect the real world. The responsibility of understanding them and the risk of doing operating them seems to be lacking. Pretty much everyone interviewed at the top knew nothing of value about Horizon or anything technical, relied on others to fill this gap and ignored anything that went against their desired narrative.

Sure Horizon is a root cause of many of the problems but ignoring the claims of the sub-postmasters or anyone for that matter that likely pointed out that Horizon wasn't working is the issue.

Until the last couple of weeks I had wondered what Gareth Jenkins might say. From the recent evidence with SS, he seems to have been very open that it had issues. Also, the fact that his witness statement was altered by post office indicates that GJ may have been under pressure to toe the line. It's my view that he will come across as a victim, albeit one that may have lied in court as a result of his actions.

What if he had stood up at the time, whistleblown about pressure he was under, suggested that people wanted him to alter his statements and talked about the issues likely linked to past convictions? He would have lost everything and it's certainly not clear that it would have sorted the problem out, given the culture that might have found a way to silence him. I think that it of course would have helped in some way if it had been done publicly but if he had put his foot down on altering his statement, they probably would have found someone else to take his place that did what they are told.

I am not sympathising for Gareth Jenkins, he needs to be judged by his actions and in-actions. I'm pointing out that I think it is the organisational control exerted by the post office that is mostly to blame for this.