Liverpool Jury Hears Pathologists Detail 41 Fractures in Baby’s Death

Overview

• Prosecutors told Liverpool Crown Court that Klevi Pirjani, 37, and Nivalda Santos Pirjani, 34, deny murder, causing or allowing the death of a child, and causing grievous bodily harm with intent.
• Hospital scans and post‑mortem findings described a skull fissure, brain bleed, extensive retinal injuries and dozens of fractures of differing ages.
• Pathologist Dr Jo McPartland testified the head and eye findings were characteristic of abusive trauma and consistent with shaking or shaking‑impact.
• Home Office pathologist Dr Srinivas Rao Annavarapu dated 39 fractures to within three to 14 days of death and two rib fractures to four to eight weeks earlier, indicating repeated episodes of injury.
• Defense suggestions that multiple headbutts caused the fatal injuries were described as very unlikely by Dr Annavarapu, and the court heard Nivalda Pirjani briefly left the courtroom during his evidence.