Former Post Office IT chief claims Horizon system was not flawed

The former head of IT at the Post Office named by the ex-chief executive Paula Vennells as one of five people responsible for the Horizon scandal has said he still has not seen evidence of a "fundamental flaw" in the IT system.

- Mark Sweney

Mike Young, who worked at the Post Office from 2008 to 2012, when the legacy Horizon was moved to an online system, was giving evidence to the public inquiry into the scandal yesterday, months after it was told "he could not be found" to add him to the witness list.

Young told the hearing: "I did not see anything fundamentally wrong with Horizon or its IT code at the time, other than minor bugs and glitches that would normally be expected in a pilot. Still, to this day, I am unaware of an identified part of Horizon code that someone can point to show that Horizon is fundamentally flawed.