Post office inquiry: Fujitsu manager called bankrupted subpostmaster 'nasty chap'
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Published 2024-01-18
Peter Sewell, who was in the Post Office Account Security Team at Fujitsu, said that Lee Carrington was a "nasty man" after the subpostmaster had threatened the company with legal action after losing all his money due to no fault of his own.
Fujitsu provided the Post Office with the Horizon computer system for individual subpostmasters. This system wrongly said that hundreds of subpostmasters had been committing fraud and more than 700 were wrongly convicted.
The email was revealed at the ongoing Post Office Horizon Inquiry.
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All Comments (21)
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Sewell. A typical corporate bully. Brave when he thinks he's untouchable. Spoiling his pants when made to explain himself.
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Here’s another pension pot that needs to be emptied and distributed to convicted sub-postmasters.
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This guy should be jailed for perverting the course of justice
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If you're sat in front of a national enquiry board, 'I don't know ' shouldn't be an acceptable answer to any question. Britain has an integrity problem.
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These Fujitsu and Post Office officials are shitting themselves. I hope they are held accountable in a criminal court and imprisoned and then sued in a civil court.
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Another awful man………shame on him, he destroyed peoples lives. Pass go and go straight to jail.
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The lies they tell the inquiry is disgusting. He knows exactly what was happening back then. Trying to protect himself and his pension
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He is lying through his teeth. Perjury should be the very least of the charges filed against him. Vile horrible man.
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i want to see this guy behind bars more than anything
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They all need to held criminally accountable for the travesty they knowingly committed, named, shamed, pensions cancelled and imprisonment.
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Horizon software = no integrity Fujitsu executive = no integrity
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He should now be put through what Lee Castletown had to experience for the last twenty years. No salary, no job and behind bars.
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And when no one goes to jail for this we'll know the true state of justice in this country.
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Fujitsu and the post office are both morally bankrupt and should both be shut down
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'Don't know' is a poor answer. It will be interesting to see how quickly our judicial system is employed to prosecute those responsible for this colossal miscarriage of justice.
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His family must be so proud! What a coward
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Why should we believe anything this man says?
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All through his evidence he said on important issues that He couldn't remember but definitely remembers that he didn't say this about any other sub-postmasters. Pathetic jelly example of the majority of middle management. You see it every day.
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This guy was an appalling witness. Either he needs dementia care, or he is strategically "forgetting" the actions that could put him into court for perversion of the course of justice.
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This guy is clearly lying to a statutory enquiry.
