Good luck proving it!

In a country where possession of chewing gum is illegal and 14 grams of heroin geets you a death sentence, I'm not sure I'd want to test the practical limitations of the burden of proof on that sort of thing.

But you already committed the crime, surely that alone will be much worse than a completely unprovable charge of destruction of evidence.

Some legal systems permit inference of guilt ("spoliation inference") based on attempts to destroy evidence; you might wind up with just extra convictions this way.

probably easiest to buy a second hand laptop, do the thing and then low level format the disk with a hammer.

For this individual, it's a little late to close the barn door.