> Smith suggested that an investigation report from the time should not be disclosed to [Noel Thomas] when it was reviewed in 2014. If it was to be disclosed, t

> Smith suggested that an investigation report from the time should not be disclosed to [Noel Thomas] when it was reviewed in 2014. If it was to be disclosed, the inquiry heard, it should be heavily redacted – and Smith himself had written that Thomas should not be shown a Post Office note from 2005 which noted that operator Fujitsu was testing the reliability of Horizon. > ‘Such a [note] may well invite a request for disclosure of the test results,’ Smith had emailed a colleague. ‘There may also be a risk that [Thomas] will suggest the investigation was inadequate or incomplete.’ Yeah, no shit. You know, in my company we have yearly "compliance training" courses where we have to hear imaginary stories about employees who gave gifts to potential clients, illegally agreed to divide up the market with competitors, and so on. I feel like everyone in the prosecutor's office should be forced to read a certain number of cases of innocent people who were wrongly convicted every year, including all the quotes like this.