{"id":56711,"date":"2026-07-15T16:25:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/baby-may-have-been-dead-before-hairdryer-burns-expert-tells-trial\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T16:25:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:25:28","slug":"baby-may-have-been-dead-before-hairdryer-burns-expert-tells-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/baby-may-have-been-dead-before-hairdryer-burns-expert-tells-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby may have been dead before hairdryer burns, expert tells trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Burge told Murray Macara, KC, defending, he was on the National Crime Agency list of expert witnesses and had dozens of published works about burns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The court heard Dahlia-Rose had suffered burns to 18% of the surface area of her body.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Burge, giving evidence remotely after examining material related to the case, said if the baby had been alive at the time she could have survived the injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It could have been she was already dead,&#8221; he told the sixth day of the trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I take the view the heat injury did not cause the death.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added he did not know what the cause of death was.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Under cross-examination by advocate depute Alan Cameron KC, prosecuting, he was asked if the heat injury was possibly the cause of death.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c20yqe414z6o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burge told Murray Macara, KC, defending, he was on the National Crime Agency list of expert witnesses and had dozens of published works about burns. The court heard Dahlia-Rose had suffered burns to 18% of the surface area of her body. Burge, giving evidence remotely after examining material related to the case, said if the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[1607,2513,874,2219,15983,962,591],"class_list":["post-56711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scotland","tag-baby","tag-burns","tag-dead","tag-expert","tag-hairdryer","tag-tells","tag-trial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56713,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56711\/revisions\/56713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}