C (permission to withdraw; medical evidence; interim threshold not crossed), Re

Miss Margaret Pine-Coffin, instructed by Oxfordshire County Council Miss Tanya Zabihi, instructed by Truemans solicitors for the First Respondent mother Miss Anna McKenna QC, instructed by Turpin and Miller, for the Second Respondent father Mr Paul Murray, instructed by Oxford Law Group, for the child 20th and 21st June 2018 ____________________

(i) JB (Health Visitor). I did not hear oral evidence form her, but noted that she carefully documented the marks she saw on A's face on 10 th and 12 th April 2018. At the meeting of professionals on 18 th June 2018 she said the images she was invited to look at, namely the photographs seen by Dr J showed, in her view, marks which were more pronounced than those she had seen and recorded;

(iii) Dr H (GP). She was the doctor who saw A on 17 th April 2018 and made the referral to the hospital to the paediatric team. A did not have any markings on her face at that time. Dr H looked at the 11 th April images. Although she identified the marks on the photographs as bruises, her letter of referral does not appear to be raising concerns about possible non-accidental injury.

(iv) Dr J. Although he did not see bruising to A when he examined her on 20 th April 2018 the mother showed him the photographs she had taken on 11 th April 2018. From those photographs, produced on the mother's iPhone he felt able to make a diagnosis that the marks seen to A's face in the photographs were bruising � in his letter he one bruise to the left cheek and one to the right, each the size of a 10 pence piece.