iPhone saves man from jail

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Get out of jail free? There’s an app for that – or at least, an Australian man has discovered there’s a way to prove his innocence from rape allegations by retrieving deleted text messages on his iPhone proving his liaisons with his accuser were consensual.
The man, in his 60’s, had been having an affair with the 18-year-old daughter of one of his friends when the relationship mysteriously soured and the girl accused him of rape.
Five rape charges and $30,000 in legal fees later, the man has been let off the hook when the court saw evidence of deleted data from his iPhone, painstakingly dug up and decoded by a leading surveillance expert. He could have had to serve 14 years behind bars had the court not accepted the mobile evidence.

According to the Sydney Morning Herald, a former covert operations policeman and ICAC surveillance expert, Gary Coulthart, had been hired by the man’s lawyers to recover over 300 deleted texts and phone calls deleted in order to keep the relationship a secret.
Talking to the press, the man’s lawyer noted ”Without the ability of Coulthart to drag the content out, a man’s life may have been ruined,” he added ”[iPhone evidence is] a bit like DNA. It can work both ways.”
According to Coulthart, all iPhone data – even deleted data – can be ”imaged” or decoded with the proper equipment.
Also, the iPhone’s keyboard caches everything written by users, meaning security experts can recover almost anything typed in for up to 12 months – a scary stat for anyone who loses their phone.
The iPhone’s internal mapping and geotagging abilities also mean detectives can use the phone to work out when and where a person was at the time of an alleged crime.
It’s not as easy as it all sounds, though, with the SMH noting that only about 20 people in the whole of Australia actually know how to work Coulthart’s magic.
The Herald says the man had lost a lucrative job with the Catholic Church and was excommunicated for his ‘crimes.’
Now, with iPhone evidence to back him up, the court has cleared him and ordered the prosecution to pay $30,056 of his legal fees.