CLAIMS by deputy headmaster Sion Jenkins that blood on his clothes came from his foster daughter's dying breaths were "impossible", a paediatrician told Lewes Crown Court.
Prof David Southall said he had never seen a dying child breathe in the pattern the defence claim 13-year-old Billie-Jo Jenkins did.
Jenkins, 40, denies killing Billie-Jo with an 18in metal tent spike at the family home in Hastings on February 15 last year. Prosecution experts say that microscopic blood spots found on clothes worn by Jenkins could only have been caused by him attacking her with the tent spike.
The defence claim that a bubble of blood in the girl's nostril burst as Jenkins crouched beside her. The case continues.
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