The digital expert, Simon Young, gave a broad overview of mobile phone calls, internet searches and other activity on Noah’s mobile phone, Kindle, and Chromebook.
He found all but one of the 28 calls to and from Noah’s phone in the week before his disappearance were between the teenager and his mother Fiona.
The inquest was told that the one call which was not between the mother and son was a 32-second call from Noah to himself.
The witness said he could not explain this, but his findings showed the call was recorded as being made on the Saturday night before Noah’s disappearance from a postcode a short distance from Noah’s home.
The witness also discovered details of internet searches for various locations, conducted at the beginning of the month Noah disappeared .
They included North Circular Road, Cave Hill, St Malachy’s College, Belfast City Hospital and Alexandra Park.
On the day of his disappearance he checked the internet for “Cavehill” but there were no records relating to any internet searches for the parts of Belfast he travelled through on the final stages of his last bicycle ride to where he disappeared.
Asked by a barrister for Fiona Donohoe, Noah’s mother, if he found any evidence on Noah’s devices for searches on the dark web, Young replied: “I saw no evidence of that.”
The dark web is an encrypted corner of the internet only accessible using special software designed to make owners digitally untraceable.
