Photo: The Canadian Press Aydin Coban is featured in this handout photo from the time of his arrest by Dutch police, which was included in an exhibit at his trial in British Columbia Supreme Court in New Westminster. THE CANADIAN PRESS/THE DUTCH POLICE A Crown attorney says similarities in messages from 22 online accounts that harassed and blackmailed British Columbia teenager Amanda Todd in the three years before her death prove they came from the same person. Marcel Daigle told the BC Supreme Court jury trial of Aydin Coban, the Dutchman accused of molesting and extorting the teenager who died in October 2012, that the similarities and consistency of the messages are “overwhelming.” Daigle says the various accounts used similar language and phrases and referred to previous threats and exchanges with Todd, including repeatedly asking her to make sexual “broadcasts” on a webcam, or sexual images of the teenager would be sent to her family and classmates. her. Coban has pleaded not guilty to extortion, harassment, contacting a juvenile for a sexual offense and possession of child pornography. Daigle says the next part of the Crown’s closing argument will focus on showing Coban was the “blackmailer” behind the accounts used to harass Todd. Jurors were previously shown a Facebook post by Todd in which the Port Coquitlam teenager said she feared the person harassing her would continue for the rest of her life and there was nothing she could do to stop it. Todd urged people on Facebook to block one of the harasser’s accounts, saying a “sick pedophile” was blackmailing her, another Crown attorney said Wednesday.
