In 1986 Merkel and colleagues [4] suggested 3 fracture types (a modification of Neer's first classification of supracondylar fractures in 1967): Because the main goal of treatment is to gain ...

Giving evidence, osteoarticular pathologist Prof Anthony Freemont told the court he had been asked to examine four fractures ... most common cause of these types of fractures is manual strangulation." ...