Labour accused of using 'inappropriate' election poster image of potential 'victim of child abuse'

Clearly local MP Andy Burnham aiming to be Health Minister doesn't know much about broken bones....

Daily Telegraph 24/03/2015 Labour accused of using 'inappropriate' election poster image of potential 'victim of child abuse'

'Paediatric experts said that the X-ray shows the bone of a three to five-year-old with multiple fractures to the lower leg and looks as though the child has been “repeatedly submitted to violence”.

Prof Christopher Colton, emeritus consultant in orthopaedic and accident surgery, Nottingham University Hospital, said: “If that X-ray presented itself at a hospital, all the alarm bells would ring for possible non-accidental injury.

“There are absolutely clear two episodes of violence and possibly the bone bruise is a third."

Prof Colton explained: “There is a fresh fracture in the middle of the leg, which is less than ten days old. Above the ankle there is a healed fracture consistent with a blow to the outer side of the leg, which is at least three to four weeks old.

“On the knee side of the main fracture, there is a slight white haze in the centre of the bone suggesting a healed bone bruise or a healed green stick fracture, about five to six weeks old.”

Prof Colton said there are other possibilities, such as the child having brittle bone disease, however he said he is “90 per cent certain” it is non-accidental injury.

"I have run it past a couple of paediatric colleagues are they both recognised this to be very likely non-accidental injury," he said.

Prof Colton said he contacted the Labour campaign office as well as his local MP over the weekend to raise his concerns, but his calls were not returned'.