Murderer nailed by 'deleted' camera phone pictures of him with victim's body

Forensics experts rebuilt a smashed camera phone and nailed the killer who posed for photos next to his butchered victim. Glasgow Daily Record reports.

"Grinning monster Stephen Price, 19, hammed it up for the camera with the corpse of innocent Scott Burgess after stabbing the quiet young man more than eighty times in his own home.

The gruesome pictures were deleted after the crime and the phone was smashed and buried.

But the images remained in the handset's memory. And technicians atForensic Telecommunications Services (FTS), the world leaders in recovering evidence from phones, were able to piece the device back together and retrieve them."

Left, pictures of some the phones in bad shape FTS has been able to recover data from.

emily | 5:04 PM | Camphone snapshots nab criminals |
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