A radiologist in England testified in a trial of a woman accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter that the girl’s injuries were consistent with those usually seen in high-velocity motor vehicle accidents, according to an October 10 report by the BBC.
Owen Arthurs, PhD, was called as an expert witness in the trial of Chelsea Gleason-Mitchell, 24, the mother, and Scott Jeff, 24, who both deny murdering the girl, according to the report.
“The kind of velocity in a road-traffic accident you need to fracture a pelvis is high impact – so a car traveling at 70 mph versus 10 mph,” Arthurs said.
An October 9 article in The Independent reported that the girl was found on June 30, 2023, in the bathroom of a temporary housing unit in Ipswich and that the cause of death was given as “bone marrow embolism caused by skeletal trauma.”
Arthurs is a professor of radiology at University College London and a consultant pediatric radiologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital.
