The Defendant was charged with an offence of criminal damage whereby he was alleged to have created and inserted a logic bomb in a software program he was maintaining for a commercial shipping company - the motive for which was alleged to be a desire by him to obtain further consultancy fees for sorting the matter out.
At the time I was junior counsel where I worked closely with our independent expert witnesses. To illustrate matters and correctly cross-examine technical witnesses I wrote programs in the computer language "C" as well as some assembler language programs. These sample programs were used to great effect in demolishing the statements of the various prosecution witnesses and experts.
After three and a half weeks in Isleworth Crown Court we made a submission of "no case" at the end of the prosecution's evidence and got the case thrown out. It is believed that the real author of the "logic bomb" was the chief prosecution witness who was seeking to get revenge for an affair between the consultant and the chief prosecution witness' wife.