Injuries to Frances Crawford consistent with 'chokehold strangulation', expert tells court
ABC News Australia · Tara Cassidy ·
A forensic pathologist has told a murder trial that injuries found on 49-year-old Frances Crawford's body were consistent with her being strangled in a chokehold and trying to free herself.
In short:
A forensic pathologist has told a murder trial he found it "difficult to reconcile" Frances Crawford's injuries with the account her husband Robert Crawford had given police of him finding her beneath their ride-on mower.
Mr Crawford's defence barrister Saul Holt KC argued his client had been sleeping before finding his wife at the base of a rock wall in their yard, beneath their more than 200kg ride-on mower.
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