A retired RCMP officer testifying for the defence at the child pornography trial of Thomas O’Grady criticized how police carried out the investigation in court yesterday.

O’Grady is accused of accessing and distributing child pornography.

Scott Frankland is a retired RCMP officer who worked in computer forensics for eight years. He’s working as a consultant for the defence in the trial, and is testifying as an expert witness.

He has trained other officers in computer forensics, and says he has been involved in hundreds of child pornography investigations.

Frankland trained other officers in computer forensics. Says he has been involved in hundreds of child pornography investigations. He retired in 2016.

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Frankland told the judge investigators did not address the evidence in the case. He says all devices in the home where O’Grady was living should have been searched, but they were not.

Frankland says there is no evidence before the court to suggest any of the devices seized by police were used to upload the original pictures reported by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

The retired officer did say, however, that images of child pornography were found, and there was a Skype conversation he described as being “between two pedophiles.”