Angus M. Marshall

Angus is a specialist in digital evidence and Internet crime, with experience of defence and prosecution casework in England and Scotland. He has provided reports in cases including copyright violation, financial fraud, child abuse/paedophilia and murder.

He has worked at several Universities in the UK and was a Senior Lecturer in Forensic Science at the University of Teesside where he had overall responsibility for Digital Forensics and Forensic Computing. Since 2009 he has been running his own consultancy business, specialising in complex digital evidence and forensic science quality matters.

During the formation of North Yorkshire Trading Standards' Digital Evidence Recovery and Internet Crime (DERIC) Unit, Angus provided assistance and advice and continues to be an advisor. He is also involved in the North-East Trading Standards' Scambusters initiative as a specialist advisor and consultant on Internet matters.

He is a regular speaker for law enforcement organisations and presents at national and international academic criminology and forensic science conferences several times a year. He has also been external examiner for two of the UK's leading Universities on their forensic computing courses and is a guest lecturer at other Universities on the uses of computer evidence in all types of criminal investigation.

In recent years he has contributed to BBC Radio Scotland's "Scenes of Crime", hosted by Val McDermid (who has also sought his advice on digital evidence matters for her fiction writing) and ITV Tyne-Tees.

He has also presented sessions, on digital evidence and the role of the forensic scientist, at the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival.

His first book, "Digital Forensics: Digital Evidence in Criminal Investigations", was published in autumn 2008 and he has contributed material to Robin Bryant's"Investigating Digital Crime", which was published in May 2008.

As well as being a regular contributor to Digital Forensics magazine, Angus has been an advisor to the Forensic Science Regulator, represents the UK on ISO working groups related to forensics and information security, and was responsible for producing the Forensic Science Society's academic standards in digital forensics.