“I can stand beside you without taking the decision away.”

We began by preserving what remained on the phone.

I did not keep testing the wet device until it failed.

We copied accessible information and made arrangements for the device to be checked rather than treating its survival as proof it would remain reliable.

The old account settings showed an inactive mailbox.

That supported what I remembered, but we would seek the account history from the people authorized to provide it.

A cached screen was not a complete administrative record.