Child pornography was discovered on a laptop linked to the defendant in an extortion case, a Supreme Court jury heard yesterday.

Lauren Bell, a police analyst, told the court that photographs and videos of a sexual nature that featured two witnesses in the case had been taken before they were 16 years old.

She gave evidence that a Skype account linked to the defendant, a 30-year-old man from St George’s, was also on the laptop and had been accessed 98 times from the device.

The defendant has denied a string of offences including extortion, making child pornography, accessing child pornography and distributing child pornography.

Neither he nor the claimants in the case can be identified for legal reasons.

Ms Bell told the court that six sensitive photographs and three sensitive videos were found from one of the two witnesses.

The images were listed on the hard drive as “created” on October 24, 2014, while the videos were “created” between August 24, 2014 and April 9, 2015.

One video and several other photographs, all of a similar nature, from the other witness were found to have been made on March 31, 2015.

Earlier in the trial, the witnesses told the court that they had sent images and videos to a self-proclaimed hacker who threatened to release sexual materials of them.

In both cases, they said, materials were released in 2015 when they stopped responding to the blackmailer.

The trial continues.

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