Warren Peace - the defence was aware of that information and used it in the trial.
As an aside Pprune commentators may be interested to know (not in regard to this case as it has now concluded) for the future that the police had trawled through social media aviation sites and had screen shots of Pprune threads/ Flyer forums etc etc. Sadly, in cases such as this defence lawyers are no longer paid by the hour for preparation otherwise they would have been paid for reading endless paged of Pprune disclosed by the police.
The police had actually contacted some for the "experts" on those threads in the hope that they were, indeed, experts. The police received a wide range of expert opinion ranging from some well informed guesswork through to the positively barking - I kid you not there was one suggestion that the crash had been caused by alien involvement ( and 2015 being 'pre-brexit' the expert was not talking about migrants nor was it written in green ink although I have only seen a black and white photocopy).