"Notice that even the Fujitsu bosses have washed their hands of their old colleagues. "And can we please, please speed up the compensation payments to the innocent. It's the least that can be done." Giving evidence in person for the first time to the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry, Mr Patterson said staff knew about bugs and glitches in the software as far back as 1999. The director of the Japanese firm's Europe arm said the firm had "clearly let society down, and the sub-postmasters down". Earlier this week, he said he was "truly sorry" for Fujitsu's role in what he described as an "appalling miscarriage of justice".