WARNING: This story contains disturbing sexual and violent details
 
Crown lawyers in Belleville, Ont., have described graphic details in the videos and photographs Col. Russell Williams took of his victims.

On Monday, Williams pleaded guilty to 88 charges, including first-degree murder, in the deaths of Jessica Lloyd and Cpl. Marie-France Comeau. He faces at least 25 years in prison with no chance of parole for the murders. He was formally convicted on all charges Tuesday.
 
In addition to videotaping his confinement and sexual assault of the women, Williams also took hundreds of photographs.

Crown lawyer Lee Burgess said it was important to put a substantial amount of information on the record to ensure that 25 years in the future, when Williams is up for parole, the parole board will be able to properly assess his risk to the community.
 
Tim Danson, lawyer for the families of Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy, the young women killed by Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka in 1991, told CBC's Mark Kelley that there needs to be a detailed transcript of the material for the future, but argued that the victims' families should obtain a court order to have the actual videos and photographs destroyed after they're no longer needed as evidence.

Danson said there's no guarantee the evidence will be completely secure from getting out into the public.

 "I think that once the legal process has been concluded, and being a guilty plea there won't likely be a basis for any appeals, that the videotapes and the very disturbing evidence be destroyed," he said.

Danson successfully obtained a court order following the Bernardo and Homolka proceedings to have the videotapes depicting the sexual assault and torture of their victims destroyed.

Should the video and photographs Col. Russell Williams took of his victims be destroyed after they're no longer required as evidence?