“Mr Cavlan screenshotted a particular area of the spreadsheet on his phone, and it would be our case, that in the case of Mr Logan, although the spreadsheet was deleted, the evidence tells us that he sent it to a phone number which is in his wife’s name which he also has got access to, so he retains access and control of that information without it being on his phone.”.
Defence solicitor Gavin Booth of Phoenix Law put to the officer that police had known the spreadsheet information had been on Cavlan’s phone for 10 months since last April, to which the officer said yes, adding they were trying to secure “the best evidence we could”.
However, the officer said the information was forwarded to a phone in the name of Logan’s wife, adding that it is “apparent from messages and content on that phone that Mr Logan also uses it and therefore would retain access and control of it on that device although it was deleted on his own”.
The officer said Cavlan’s phone was seized from his hand on April 12 2024, and he did not provide his passcode to open the phone, but it was accessed by the police cyber crime unit, and the spreadsheets were located on it.
Mr Booth also said that police accept there has now been hundreds if not thousands of shares of the data on WhatsApp and social media, and questioned whether it would be proven the accused had the data for any “sinister use”.
