Elsie Scully-Hicks was allegedly killed by Matthew Scully-Hicks two weeks after he and his husband, Craig, formally adopted her. Matthew Scully-Hicks, 36, is accused of causing fatal injuries to the girl at the couple’s home in Cardiff. The court has heard that Elsie had been well throughout the day of her admission to hospital, 25 May 2016. Dr Marian McGowan, a consultant paediatrician, told the jury she thought it was “improbable” that all the injuries Elsie presented with “arose separately and coincidentally”. She said that after sustaining the injury Elsie would have been distressed and quickly would have become “very unwell” and then unconscious.

Source: The Guardian October 19, 2017 14:15 UTC