Background to Inspect Computer Content Report

The police seized several cable TV decoders and a computer and produced a report that described how allegedly incriminating software on the computer could have been used in the modification of cable TV decoders.  The defendant was charged with theft of cable TV decoders, receiving stolen cable TV decoders and with modifying a cable TV decoder.

I inspected the computer and produced a report that described all of the content of the computer and described the allegedly incriminating software in context.  Each item of allegedly incriminating software was also discussed in the report to show, where possible, if the software had a use that was not related to cable television.

I attended each day of the trial and after four days of prosecution evidence, all of the charges were reduced to a single absolute offence of being in possession of an unauthorised cable TV decoder.