Originally Posted by
Austrian Simon
However, the BBC story raises one more question: how could one access the mobile phone and get to the video without PIN/password in this time? This all doesn't fit together.
Servus, Simon
Not sure about the specific mobile phone here, but it might be that the camera was set to save media on a removable SD memory card rather than on the device memory. If they removed the card and read it on another device, they may have been able to retrieve the video.
Edited to add:
Even more so, in case the phone had been damaged by fire and not functioning anymore.