Baby murdered by stepdad had signs of 'earlier injury'

Another ‘Baby P’ type case has come to light in Scotland.

A court in Aberdeen has been told that six-week-old Alexis Matheson died from brain swelling, a torn eye muscle and haemorrhaging of the spinal cord, but showed signs of injury that may have been inflicted a number of days before.

The Sun reports neuropathologist Dr James MacKenzie as telling Aberdeen High Court that "It certainly looks as if there are at least two separate clusters of injury, perhaps more than two."

The baby girl was allegedly assaulted and then murdered by her mother’s then-boyfriend, 29-year-old Mark Simpson, who denies the charges against him.

Dr Mackenzie, of Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, told the court that the injuries were ‘a number of days old.’