Author of the article: Brenna Owen, The Canadian Press Aidin Coban is shown in handout photos from the time of his arrest by Dutch police, who entered an exhibit at his trial in British Columbia Supreme Court in New Westminster. Photo by Dutch Police / The Canadian Press

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A hard drive seized from the home of the Dutchman accused of molesting British Columbia teenager Amanda Todd contained a deleted bookmark to child pornography depicting her, a Crown attorney said Friday in BC Supreme Court.

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Louise Kenworthy told Aydin Coban’s jury trial that earlier expert testimony showed Todd’s name and many of the online aliases used to harass her were also found on a second hard drive seized when Dutch police arrested Coban in 2014. Coban has pleaded not guilty to extortion, harassment, contacting a juvenile for a sexual offense and possession of child pornography. Kenworthy said she expects to wrap up the Crown’s closing argument Tuesday, when she said she will talk about an online account that was active on a computer just five minutes before police arrested Coban at his home and then seized the device. He said evidence showed the account was operated by the same person behind another account, posing as a young woman, who harassed Todd.

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There was no witness to say, “I saw Aydin Coban typing messages on his computer to Amanda Todd,” or that Coban was seen in possession of child pornography depicting the teenager, Kenworthy told the jury Friday. But his guilt was the only conclusion the jury could draw from the testimony of more than 30 witnesses and binders full of 80 exhibits, he said. Amanda Todd in an undated photo. The Port Coquitlam teenager was 15 when she died in 2012. Photo from PNG files He took the jury to testimony from a BC RCMP expert in digital forensics, who told the court last month about finding a folder with Todd’s name deleted from a web browser on one of the seized devices. The folder contained links to the Facebook profiles of some of Todd’s friends, the officer said. The officer testified that he found evidence that several of the accounts used to harass Todd were connected to social media platforms on the seized devices, he said.

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Those accounts were active right around the time the Port Coquitlam teenager was experiencing harassment and blackmail, Kenworthy said. The RCMP officer also testified that he found “actual conversation fragments” between Todd and several of the online aliases on one of the seized devices, he said. Kenworthy was quoted in testimony that Coban lived alone in the house, from a childhood friend who helped him move in and the son of the owner of the bungalow park where the house was located. At the start of the trial two months ago, Kenworthy told the court Todd had been the victim of a persistent online “blackmail” campaign three years before her death aged 15 in October 2012. The jury saw evidence that Todd’s harasser repeatedly asked her to perform sexual “broadcasts” on a webcam, followed by threats to send sexual images of the teenager to her family and classmates.

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Earlier this week, jurors were shown a Facebook post from Todd in which she expressed fear that the person who was harassing her would continue for the rest of her life. Todd urged people to block one of the harasser’s accounts, saying a “sick pedophile” was blackmailing her, Crown attorney Kristen LeNoble said. The Crown also spent Thursday outlining alleged links between Coban and Todd through a phone number, a passport photo and a video file that bore the teenager’s name. Attorney Heather Guinn said one of the Facebook accounts used to harass Todd, who Facebook records and expert testimony have linked to several other aliases, was registered to a cellphone number linked to Coban.

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He recalled the testimony of two women who said they received the number in May 2011 while contacting a man about renting an apartment in Rotterdam. Both women told the court they met the man at the apartment and later received a passport photo of him, Guinn said. Police found a copy of the same photo while searching Coban’s home, he said. Guinn showed the photos in the courtroom and they appeared to show Coban. Another Crown attorney, Marcel Daigle, cited earlier testimony from a Dutch police digital investigator who said a deleted video file named “AmandaTodd.wmv” had been played on one of the seized devices in December 2010, corresponding to at a time when Todd was in the are being actively harassed. Daigle said several devices found in Coban’s home had software described as an “anti-criminal” program used to delete files so they could not be recovered. More news, less ads, faster load time: Get unlimited, ad-lite access to the Vancouver Sun, Province, National Post and 13 other Canadian news sites for just $14/month or $140/year. Subscribe now through the Vancouver Sun or The Province.

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