Two-year-old Alexina Kelbie died in foster care in Dundee over 60 years ago
One of the UK’s top pathologists has backed calls to exhume a toddler’s body to prove she was murdered more than 60 years ago.
Alexina and her siblings, who were of Romany Gypsy heritage, were taken into temporary care after allegations of negligence at camps emerged. She died of a head injury after being taken to hospital by her foster mother on August 31, 1960. An investigation suggested it was self inflicted and no criminality was established by police.
Recalling his crucial part in the 2006 review, Prof Pounder said no record of Alexina’s post mortem could be found at Dundee University, where he was professor of forensic medicine for 26 years. Instead, he studied photographs, recently uncovered by police, which left him in no doubt she had met an “assaultive death”.
Top news stories today The detective in charge of the 1988 review concluded Alexina’s death had been fully investigated. The 1993 review showed physical abuse was investigated but the post mortem did not provide evidence to support it.
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