ISLAMABAD: An accountability court on Friday concluded recording the statement of forensic expert Robert Radley, who had earlier admitted during Thursday’s hearing that the Calibri font was available on a limited scale in 2005.
After attending the hearing, former premier Nawaz Sharif spoke to journalists outside the accountability court and said: “During the last hearing, he [Radley] had said the Calibri font was only available to IT experts; and now he had recorded that while he was not an IT expert he was also using the same font.”
“You must have a fair idea whether our stance has been strengthened or that of the Joint Investigation Team,” Nawaz responded to a question, adding, “The answers to the JIT’s questions are slowly coming forward and people are realizing that the case is baseless.” Radley told the court that he wanted to change his statement. He was informed that his statement had been recorded a day earlier and now he was to be examined.
While being examined by Khawaja Haris, Radley said he received the documents on July 6; had he not been pressed for time he would have been able to submit a ten-times more detailed report.
Haris, asked if that meant, due to lack of time the report submitted was not correct. Radley responded to by saying: “That was not the case and that he was completely certain about the accuracy of his report.”
Cross questioning Radley, Haris asked if he was an IT expert. Radley replied in the negative. The counsel for the defence then stated that the report Radley had submitted was incorrect, to which Radley insisted that his report was absolutely correct. Radley also told the prosecution that he had mentioned all of his sources in his first report, however, he had omitted them from his second report. Windows introduced six fonts from 2002 through to 2006, Haris noted, questioning the witness if he had stated the same in his report. Bradley responded that the report was technical in nature hence this detail was not mentioned.
Published in Daily Times, February 24th 2018.
