Background to Deleted Files Report

The police seized a personal computer together with diskettes, a CD, video tapes and printed material from the Defendants home.  An police inspection of the CD and diskettes found numerous images (some deleted from the diskettes) that appeared to have been obtained from the Internet.  The Defendant was charged with making indecent images.

Defence counsel requested a report that showed that one or more of the diskettes was "second hand", that it is not possible to discover the date that files were deleted and that the Defendant's computer was not equipped to write to a CD.

I attended the two day trial and was not required to give evidence.