Dealing with harassment.. Need to access Whatsapp messages from broken iPhone

Kittycat000

I am pursuing a harassment case against somebody. I spoke to the Kilkenny guards yesterday for the first time about it. They were very understanding but as my official address is in Wexford, they told me to go to the Wexford guards to pursue the case. They said as long as I allow access to my phone records there will be no problem. I am going back home to Wexford this week and will be talking to the guards about the harassment.

Only thing is, all the abusive messages were on whatsapp on an iPhone that broke about 2 weeks ago (water damage).
I previously screenshotted all the messages and saved them to my computer but I don't think this is proof enough. It has to come directly from the phone.

Online it seems there are ways to retrieve messages from a broken android phone but not an iPhone.
I will happily give my consent for garda to access the phone records, but how is this done when the phone is broken? Can they get onto whatsapp 'headquarters' and retrieve the messages?

I am worried my case will be jeopardized due to the broken phone. How will the Garda access the records!?

Help!

spaceHopper

Any time I've up graded my android phone it's re-sync the whatsapp messages maybe an I phone it the same