Citation

Patel F. J. Clin. Forensic Med. 1994; 1(3): 149-152.

Affiliation

Department of Forensic Medicine, UMDS, Guy's & St Thomas' Hospitals, London Bridge, UK.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

16371284

Abstract

Gunshot wounds are well characterised in forensic textbooks and atypical or unusual ballistic characteristics feature regularly in forensic literature. Forensic practitioners receive continuing education in recognising a variety of gunshot wounds which are created by bullet missiles. Awareness of a non-missile penetrating injury mimicking a gunshot wound is also relevant to forensic medical examiners or others who are likely to attend a scene of death. In this case, which involved self-stabbing with a metal nail, a homicidal firearm death investigation was instigated because of a misinterpretation by crime scene investigators.

Language: en