The evidence proves that a man accused of a slew of child pornography charges is innocent, his counsel told a Supreme Court jury on Friday.

Prosecutors alleged the 30-year-old man blackmailed two underage girls into sending him sexual images, claiming he was a hacker.

During her closing statement, defence lawyer Elizabeth Christopher told the jury that while her client “behaved really badly” at one point, he was not responsible for nude images of two young girls being leaked.

She added: “My client has the presumption of innocence and if you scrutinise the evidence, you will find that my client must be acquitted.”

Ms Christopher explained that when the defendant cut ties with one of the alleged victims, he had insulted her. But she added that had he known that sensitive images of the person had been leaked, he would have been kinder.

She said: “He said things that he knew were going to hurt her but he did not know that video was circulating.

“He didn’t know what circumstances those images were taken under.”

The defendant, from St George’s, 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.

The court heard earlier that images of a sexual nature of the two witnesses, taken both individually and together before they were 16 years old, were found on a laptop linked to the defendant and seized as part of the investigation.

The content was found on the laptop around 2015 shortly after the images were leaked when the alleged victims cut ties with their blackmailer.

Ms Christopher said that her client, who knew the two alleged victims through a shared love of music, wanted to help the girls after they told him of their situation and only offered good-natured advice.

She added that, while the images were found on his laptop, he had not used the device since 2011 and there were applications on the device, such as an accounting app and the music-sharing app Limewire, that he had never used.

Earlier when on the stand, the defendant told the court that he had been locked out of his laptop after its password was changed.

He explained that he only kept the device to charge his iPod.

The defendant added that, while he insulted one of the defendants as he cut ties with her, he was frustrated with her behaviour at the time and spoke out of anger — an action he now regretted.

He said: “It was heartbreaking seeing her give evidence. It was inhumane what happened to her.”

Adley Duncan, for the Crown, earlier pressed the defendant on this, suggesting that he wanted this alleged victim to suffer for upsetting him.

He suggested that he leaked the images on social media as a form of revenge.

But the defendant insisted that he was unaware of the content.

The trial continues.

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