The inquiry continues with McCormack, and skips to a letter from July 2016 in which he urges justice, this time for Seema Misra, and highlights problems with Horizon.
Again, in the evidence shown, Williams takes issue with the tone of the letter in his response and says he is not inclined to reply, then says they might as well send a short response asking for his evidence – and so he cannot say the Post Office ignored correspondence about Horizon issues.
Again McCormack is then told they would consider information he might disclose but not comment on the matter.
Beer then asks why Williams was writing these responses back to McCormack “which all shut down what he was saying and didn’t say we will investigate the concerns”?
Williams says that he would like to see other emails – because McCormack didn’t present any of the information that he said he had – and says he was trying to draw the correspondence to an end or to a point where it could be taken further as, according to Williams, McCormack wasn’t presenting information or evidence of what he was talking about.
“Did you think he was he a mischief maker,” Beer asks.
Williams says no, that he thought McCormack was a genuinely concerned individual and motivated to raise issues with them, but saying the challenge for the PO was it “wasn’t quite sure what the issues were”.
