article_snippet: Medical experts claim the image of a broken leg depicts injuries consistent with a history of violence on a child aged three to five.
article_snippet: The controversial image showed the x-ray of a broken leg bone, under the headline: Next time, they'll cut to a broken leg bone.'
article_snippet: But medics immediatly recognised the image as potentially showing the impact of repeated injuries suffered by an abuse victim.
article_snippet: But experts said it appeared to be 'very likely non-accidental injury', suggesting a broken leg bone could have been inflicted intentionally.
article_snippet: Prof Christopher Colton, emeritus consultant in orthopaedic and accident surgery, Nottingham University Hospital, told the Telegraph: 'If that X-ray presented X- at a hospital, all the alarm bells would ring for possible non-accidental injury. '
article_snippet: There are absolutely clear two episodes of violence and
article_snippet: possibly the bone bruise is a third.'
article_snippet: The x-ray shows a very recent break in the middle of the leg, but there is healed fracture above the ankle which could be three to four weeks old.
article_snippet: There is also a 'slight white haze' in the centre of the leg bone suggesting a healed bone bruise or fracture which is around five to six weeks old.
highlights_snippet: Medical experts say it also shows other older injuries to leg and ankle .
  
highlights_snippet: Appears 'very likely non-accidental injury' and could be result of abuse .