Fujitsu staff were “complicit in a cover-up” in the Post Office accounting scandal by dismissing complaints about its computer system rather than investigating, lawyers have told a public inquiry.
Julie Wolstenholme was one of hundreds of sub-postmasters who went to court after being accused of stealing money, when in fact dozens of glitches in the Horizon software, supplied by Fujitsu, were to blame.
The sub-postmaster from Cleveleys, Lancashire, was sacked over the “missing” £11,000 in 2001, but took the Post Office to court with a claim that the IT system was defective.
• She exposed the scandal but nobody listened
Internal emails from 2004, the year her case was due to go to court, revealed that a senior Post Office lawyer wanted to “throw money”
