FUTURE OF MOBILE: The intelligence behind tracking digital evidence

The first time most of us had any sense of how using a mobile phone left a trail that lasted long after you’d hung up was the Joe O’Reilly murder trial.

In July 2007, an O2 electronics engineer testified that an analysis of mobile phone records put O’Reilly at or near the scene of the murder at the Naul, Dublin, and not the Broadstone Bus Depot, where he claimed to have been.

When O’Reilly was eventually convicted of bludgeoning his wife to death at their home, the mobile phone evidence was cited as crucial.