Exactly - how many would a) first know what it looks like and b) secondly be able to 'get it out' in moments to 'destroy' in front of an attorney who had just showed up and was obstensibly waiting in the living room!
THIS is too incredible a tale to be real!
Had I been 'the attorney', I would have witnessed a) the computer pulling up the e-mail followed by b) the removal of the HD and it's c) subsequent, positive, verified destruction ...