By Daily Mail Reporter and Joe Middleton For Mailonline
Published: 20:20 BST, 12 May 2019 | Updated: 22:33 BST, 12 May 2019
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A widow who wanted access to her late husband’s photographs has won a three-year legal battle against tech giant Apple.
Rachel Thompson, 44, spent thousands of pounds forcing Apple to open the account so she could help her daughter Matilda, ten, remember her father through images he stored online.
Mrs Thompson’s initial attempts to access her husband Matt’s account after he took his own life in July 2015 were rebuffed by the American company.
Apple said that it would only release the 4,500 photos and 900 videos under a court order as Mr Thompson had not specified what access others should have to his account after his death aged 39.
Rachel Thompson spent years fighting the tech behemoth to obtain the 4,500 photos and 900 videos of Matt Thompson, who died in July 2015, and left no will
Mrs Thompson, a property adviser from Chiswick, west London, said this
