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The eleventh day of the April Jones murder trial is due to begin at 10am. Jurors are expected to hear from computer experts about the indecent images recovered from Mark Bridger's computer. The nine women and three men that make up the panel were due to hear the evidence yesterday but legal arguments caused it to be delayed.
Proceedings have been delayed. Around a dozen journalists are gathered in the courtroom and have just been told by the clerk the trial will start shortly.
After an unexpected 25 minute delay an usher has brought the jury down to the courtroom.
Bridger, who is wearing the same blue shirt as he has done since last Tuesday, has taken his seat in the dock.
Proceedings will now begin.
@NewsAndyD:
#AprilJones Mr Ray says the computer contained a 'library of images', arranged into folders 'pornographic, including of underage girls'
#AprilJones The witness says the second strand of their findings were a series of Internet searches
#AprilJones Mr Ray "Demonstrate searches had been made for the kind of material I've just mentioned"
#AprilJones he also alleges there were images of child murder victims. Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman
#AprilJones witness also tells jury the files were in user generated folders
#AprilJones the jury are being taken through a presentation of the images, allegedly found on Mark Bridger's laptop
#AprilJones Mr Ray is explaining how and when new folders were made
#AprilJones there were also allegedly images of April's half sisters, and others, taken off Facebook.
#AprilJones Mr Ray tells court in a folder called 'Z5' there were images of "cartoon sex" with "representations of young girls"
@skynewsnorth:
Bridger shaking his head occasionally as computer investigator gives evidence from witness box. #apriljones
Specialist says cartoons on computer feature "monster sex" with "humanoid" figures with "representations of young girls. #apriljones
@NewsAndyD:
#AprilJones Mr Ray says he would think there were 100 to 150 indecent images, with 65 being of criminal standard
@DarrenLittleSky:
Picture of April's sister was "presumably" from Facebook and put in the "clothes" file, was also a separate file named after her #apriljones
Expert: There were 65 indecent images "which would meet the criminal standard" on MB's computer #apriljones
MB also had a picture of girl who was murdered in Florida and had been buried alive #apriljones
He also had photos of the murdered Soham girls Holly and Jessica, Caroline Dickinson who was murdered in France and a Turkish murder victim
Expert: In June MB searched the Internet for "naked five year old girls" #apriljones
@NewsAndyD:
#AprilJones jury now being shown Internet searches allegedly made on the 8th of June 2012
#AprilJones Mervyn Ray tells the court that, in his view, were typed in by the user.
#AprilJones some of the alleged searched terms are for content of underage girls.
#AprilJones Expert says that there were images saved around the same as the searches were made
#AprilJones 14th of August, alleged a large amount of material, expert estimates 75% of which were indecent images, saved onto computer
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"The computer was found to contain a series of folders which amounted to a library of images," Mr Ray said. "The images were arranged in such a way that certain images were separated, sorted. In one folder there were pornographic images including images of underage girls. In another folder there were other sexual images in cartoon format including representations of underage girls."In a third folder there were images of clothed girls including known individuals."
The computer expert also described how his team discovered a number of indecent searches had been performed on the laptop. He added the hard drive also contained "images connected to past murders of children" including Soham killer Ian Huntley's victims, Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman and nine-year-old American youngster Jessica Lumsford. These images, Mr Ray said, were found in the "clothed" folder.
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The trial has just been adjourned to allow jurors a short break.
The clerk has a just told the gathered media the break will last a little longer than expected.
Proceedings have now resumed.
Elwen Evans QC, prosecuting, has finished questioning Mr Ray and the witness is now being cross-examined by Bridger's barrister Brendan Kelly QC.
In answer to a question posed by Mr Kelly, the computer expert confirmed that while indecent images were still stored on Bridger's computer, none of them were accessed between September 6 and September 28 last year.
@NewsAndyD:
#AprilJones Defence QC Brendan Kelly asks if on the 14th August, was the entire folder was moved at the same time. Mr Ray answers 'yes'
#AprilJones Mr Ray says "no evidence that he's looked at them since the 14th August."
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There was no internet connection in Bridger's Mount Pleasant cottage, jurors have just been told. Mr Kelly has just revealed that all of Bridger's web browsing had been done through a mobile internet device known as a dongle.
Mr Ray has finished his evidence and has been released from the witness box.
In his place Ms Evans has called Adrian Wood, a private computer forensic investigator recruited by Dyfed Powys Police to analyse Bridger's Acer laptop.
The public gallery - which was cleared for Mr Ray's evidence - has been reopened.
Mr Wood has told jurors that he uncovered evidence a number of files, which included images, had been deleted from Bridger's laptop. He added these files had been deleted sometime between May 26 and July 6 last year.
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The trial will
resume at 2pm.
Unfortunately that's their job and they seem to be making a pretty good task of it - and we've still to hear their side of the story yet.
