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BBCNEWS Newsnight June 4, 2024 23:05:00

Constable held accountable and the cbs held constable held accountable and the cbs held accountable for the failures cbs held accountable for the failures and neglect of their duty. We will failures and neglect of their duty. We will come back to that, dont worry. Thank you. One of the top directors of fujitsu and the current boss of the Post Office are due to be grilled by mps tomorrow, while people who currently work and used to work at the Tech Company are giving evidence to the Post Office public inquiry. Presumably, one of them will be asked how much theyll be contributing to the £1 billion of compensation expected to go to to former sub postmasters. Tonight on newsnight, were looking at how courts in england and wales handle evidence obtained from computers. We know hundreds were wrongly convicted after it was assumed that the Horizon It System was working properly. The courts accepted evidence from Fujitsu Staff saying as much. We can reveal weve seen a document that was sent to the government four years ago from several experts urging ministers to look again at the presumption in courts that Computers Cant get things wrong. Sima kotecha has the story

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