Overview
- An A&E nurse said she raised safeguarding concerns on September 2 after finding a broken leg, unexplained bruises, a domestic‑violence social‑care note and a two‑week delayed presentation to hospital.
- Isabelle's maternal grandmother told detectives she noticed a bruise on the child's back days after the hospital visit and said the toddler looked much more unwell in the days before she collapsed.
- Prosecutors say specialist examinations found 21 fractures and evidence of sexual assault in the weeks before Isabelle suffered a catastrophic head injury on September 13 and died early on September 14.
- Jurors were shown home video and CCTV and heard witness accounts of the collapse and first aid as the defendants, Alexandra Walker and Harrison Simpson, deny murder and related child‑abuse charges.
- The recent testimony has focused attention on possible missed warning signs at hospital and in family circles and could shape jurors' assessment of whether safeguarding failures contributed to Isabelle's death.