The prosecution’s key medical witness, Starship radiologist Dr Russell Metcalfe, pushes our camera outside the court. Inside the courtroom, he is unequivocal - the baby’s fractures were “almost certainly” caused by squeezing. But under cross examination, cracks begin to appear in the Crown case. 

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