The Police seized a computer and a Zip disk (a type of high capacity diskette) from the Defendant's home.  Upon examination, the Police found indecent images of children on the computer hard disk and on the Zip disk.  The Defendant was charged with Possession of Indecent Images of Children and with Making Indecent Images of Children.

The Defendant was attending a computer course at College.  He said that he had found the Zip disk lying around at College and had brought it home to see what it contained.  He said that he had had trouble reading the Zip disk and that an attempt to copy the content of the Zip disk to the hard disk of his computer had failed.

The defense solicitors requested a report to establish whether the evidence from the computer was consistent with the Defendant's version of events.

My report may be viewed here...

A printable version of my report is here...