Aydin Coban

The jury took less than two days to reach Aydin Coban's guilty verdict for five charges he was facing, in relation to Amanda Todd.

“The evidence was not just that Mr. Coban had only swapped out hard drives and that’s all he did… “This is a significant hole in Crown’s theory,” he said. The Crown has argued Coban was the sole owner and operator of the two hard drives, and that while he may have had a job “swapping out hard drives,” it wouldn’t explain their repeated connection to other devices he owned. Now, Aydin Coban has been found guilty, which I knew in my heart it was him. The Crown’s theory is built on two propositions: that one person operated all of the accounts, and that the one person is Coban. The trial hinged on the identity of what the Crown has called the “sextortionist” that used 22 online aliases to sexually blackmail Todd over four “episodes” before she took her life in 2012.

Coban was charged in 2014 and extradited to Canada in 2020.

Coban was charged in 2014 and extradited to Canada in 2020. Coban was charged in 2014 and extradited to Canada in 2020. Coban threatened to show explicit photos of the Port Coquitlam teen to her friends and family unless she performed sexual acts in front of a web camera.

Prior to her death, Todd posted a video on YouTube in which she held up cards describing how she had been blackmailed.

Coban has earned a living repairing computers and evidence submitted in court pointed to him as the owner of two hard drives linked to the cyberbullying. Today, a jury found a resident of the Netherlands, Aydin Coban, guilty on all counts in the cyberbullying of 15-year-old Amanda Todd. Nearly a decade after a Port Coquitlam teenager committed suicide after being cyberbullied, her online tormenter has been convicted in B.C. Supreme Court.

The jury in the British Columbia Supreme Court trial of Aydin Coban has found him guilty on all charges he faced.

He was accused of abusing 34 girls and five gay men, behaviour the court called “astonishing.” In some cases, the abuse lasted years. She said she will have a drink in her honour on Saturday evening, although she hasn't decided what it will be. Cheers of “yes” rang out from the teenager's mother and supporters when the verdict was read out. Her plea and subsequent death shone a light on the issue of online harassment and cyberbullying. Her daughter would have turned 26 on Nov. 27 this year. He was not charged in relation to Todd's death. Coban, who wore a blue button-down shirt and dark trousers, pursed his lips as the verdict was read out but otherwise showed little emotion. Todd said she was “satisfied” that he knew she was in that room. “This is not what we hoped for or expected. It's not the verdict we expected at all on any of the five counts,” he said. “Now we need to consider our options. At the beginning of the trial she said Todd had been the victim of a persistent campaign of online “sextortion” over three years before her death.

Aydin Coban was accused of extortion, harassment, communication with a young person to commit a sexual offence and possession and distribution of child ...

He was accused of abusing 34 girls and five gay men, behaviour the court called “astonishing.” In some cases, the abuse lasted years. Note to readers: This is a corrected story. Cheers of “yes” rang out from the teenager’s mother and supporters when the verdict was read out. She said she will have a drink in her honour on Saturday evening, although she hasn’t decided what it will be. Her plea and subsequent death shone a light on the issue of online harassment and cyberbullying. He was not charged in relation to Todd’s death. Her daughter would have turned 26 on Nov. 27 this year. Coban, who wore a blue button-down shirt and dark trousers, pursed his lips as the verdict was read out but otherwise showed little emotion. Todd said she was “satisfied” that he knew she was in that room. “This is not what we hoped for or expected. It’s not the verdict we expected at all on any of the five counts,” he said. “Now we need to consider our options.

A Dutch man accused of tormenting British Columbia teen Amanda Todd via online threats has been found guilty of all charges he faced in connection with the ...

8 hr ago 5 hr ago 8 hr ago There are currently two multi-million Lotto Max prizes sold in Toronto waiting to be claimed, the OLG says. 8 hr ago 5 hr ago 5 hr ago 8 hr ago The Gatineau police service says instead that it faced 'an aggressive person' who allegedly injured two police officers. 8 hr ago 5 hr ago The trial lasted nearly two months and took place over a decade after Todd died by suicide in 2012 at the age of 15.