mellss yr 4 forensic defence, hesitation, self inflicted and fabricated injuries
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Defence injury • Wounds sustained by a victim while
trying to defend himself from an attack by raising his hands, or attempting to wrest the weapon away from the assailant
• Importance?
Hesitation Injuries• Multiple, shallow ,non- fatal• Gather courage before the final fatal act• Seen under clothing
Hesitation cuts • Aka exploratory cuts,
feeler strokes or tentative cuts
• Repeated horizontal, parallel, shallow, half-hearted cuts
• Merges with main wound
• Site?
Hesitation Stab• Uncommon• Mid chest• Multiple minimal
penetration
Hesitation Shot• Aka flinch shot• Shots fired away from body
or on non- fatal parts of body
Fabricated injury
• Fabricated, fictitious, forged or invented injury• Wounds which may be: – produced by a person on his own body (self
inflicted), – caused by another person with his consent (self-
suffered).
Fabricated injury • Done to a person’s body with
the consent of the person by another person
• Any type of injury possible
Reference • VV Pillay, Textbook of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, 15th edition• M.I. Sheikh, P. Pranav, K. Vijay, Defense wounds in homicidal
deaths ,JIAFM, 31 (1) (2009)• Mohanty M.K., Panigrahi M.K. et al- Self Defence Injuries in Homicidal
Deaths; JFLM 2007: 14 (4): 213-215• Suicidal and homicidal sharp force injury: a 5 year retrospective ‐
comparative study of hesitation marks and defense wounds. Forensic Sci Med Pathol 4:221-227
• Anil Aggrawal, APC Textbook of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology• https://www.aerzteblatt.de/pdf/DI/103/40/a2627e.pdf• Dr. R.K.Gorea ,Dr. J.Gargi ,A.D.Aggarwal ,incidence and pattern of
fabricated injuries, PAFMAT Volume 7(2), 2007