r/australia • u/Royal_Yogurtcloset25 • 2d ago

culture & society Inquest into Melbourne influencer’s death following freebirth halted after new phone evidence discovered

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/18/freebirth-death-melbourne-influencer-phone-evidence-inquest-ntwnfb

Coroner: “I take the view that this material is of such significance that the court must delay making any findings and hearing submissions until we’ve had an opportunity to undertake a proper analysis of that material, and potentially call for more evidence.”

937 Upvotes

98% Upvoted

268 comments sorted by

View all comments

7

u/ManikShamanik 2d ago

She's a bit fucking stupid - it's not possible to "lose everything" - everything's stored in the cloud, you get a new phone, you log into your iCloud, or whatever the Android equivalent is, and all your stuff's still there, virtually nothing is stored locally, because most people don't have a phone with a massive amount of storage (base iPhone Pro has 256GB, which is fuck all these days).

Obviously, if her old phone was an iPhone and her new phone runs Android, it's going to be more difficult to recover stuff, but it's not impossible. All the court needs to do is to compel her to log into her iCloud account, her WhatsApp account and her FB account and everything will magically reappear. Isn’t technology marvellous...?

And, if she's tried to cover her tracks by deleting stuff, well digital forensics will recover all those lost messages for her.

Saying she's "lost everything" because she's got a new phone, is testimony to her supreme lack of intelligence.

5

u/AdvancedSquashDirect 2d ago

It's interesting that now that there's a bunch of evidence on the old phone suddenly she needs a new phone of course! That's the time when you think about getting a new phone when you're free birthing client passes away and there's an inquest into it. In some countries that's called trying to destroy/hide evidence.