You can be forgiven for not having all the "facts" of this case at your fingertips, but this discussion has been somewhat derailed. To clarify: two different porn allegations were made public - adult porn, and child porn. We haven't previously used the word "adult", because it was clear from the context what was intended. Furthermore, there were allegations relating to prostitutes. These belong together with the adult porn, since in neither case was there any suggestion of any law being broken.
The child porn would have been illegal, had it existed. Vincent Tabak did indeed plead guilty to the charge of possessing illegal child images, or at least the media reported that he did. Whether you think his trial and conviction for this offence, several years after his conviction for the murder of Joanna Yeates, is weird, seems to depend on how credulous you are. Once again, no witness was produced to testify under oath that these illegal images had actually been found on his computer. None of the news media found this odd - but I do. Any normal defence counsel would have challenged the prosecution to produce this witness right from the start.
I don't want to spend time on this issue, as some people will consider it speculative. What is 100 percent certain, however, is that NEITHER the child porn NOR the adult porn (and associate prostitute trysts) could have existed at all. If police really had found illegal child porn on his computer, then they could have produced it during the murder trial as inescapable evidence of his bad character. There would have been no need for the lawyers to waste time arguing backwards and forwards, repeatedly, about whether to tell the jury about the adult porn and the prostitutes, as they evidently did, if the prosecution already had such strong evidence of bad character to produce against him. Therefore, this evidence did not exist, and therefore the adult porn and the prostitutes also had to be equally phoney.
This article references the porn been shown when the jury were not there .. I don't know how the article has that date ???
CREATED: 10:27, 25 October 2011
Her reaction to news that her boyfriend was a killer with a sordid double life can only be imagined. She was not called as a trial witness and not in court to hear legal argument - without the jury - over Tabak’s internet porn obsessions.
I take from this that the porn was brought to trial..... That proves it didn't exist.... I have always said that it couldn't exist because of the 1300 page document.... The jury had a copy so did the prosecution the judge and the defence... I believe that if it existed then it would be within the pages of the 1300 page document....
Now I'm about to contradict myself.... The 1300 page document was made well before trial... And it should have had all the information relating to what they say Dr Vincent Tabak apparently did in America .. along with his internet searches for porn ..... And any supposed transactions for porn.....
I am now wondering whether or not the jury saw this information.....
They convicted Dr Vincent Tabak of murder.. there was no supporting evidence to say whether it was intentional or not...The Prosecution always maintaining that it was sexual... But.... And I am being to wonder....
Did the 1300 page document still contain the alleged searches of porn and the so called evidence of subscriptions to various websites.....
We don't KNOW.......
I have always assumed that because they argued the porn... then it couldn't be still contained within this document... But lets face it... 1300 pages is one hell of a lot of information, which was supposed to contain Joanna Yeates ... Greg Reardon... Tanaj Morson and Dr Vincent Tabaks movement .. emails texts and phone calls....
Joanna Yeates would have had very few texts and phone calls .... Greg Reardon too, as he was just a witness... Tanja Morson did not appear at trial, even though we are aware some of her texts were mentioned in court....
Which leaves Dr Vincent Tabak.... So the majority of this 1300 page document was in relation to Dr Vincent Tabak....
So what did the jury actually see within these 1300 pages of documentation???
Were the references to porn still in there ???
Were references to prostitutes still in there ????
What about the child porn ????
What was bound in this document that the jury had in their possession to take to the jury room and deliberate as to whether or not Dr Vincent Tabak was guilty???
Did they have the knowledge that was not used in evidence in this trial in the jury room before we the public were made aware of it??
It most certainly could have been still held within the 1300 page document... Lets face it Clegg was hardly gonna say anything was he .... (imo)
That 1300 page document I believe is significant.... Now where can I get my hands on it ????
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2053178/Joanna-Yeates-trial-verdict-Vincent-Tabak-guilty-murder.html#ixzz4yS40Arel