Editorial Office, Journal of Forensic Pathology, United Kingdom
Editorial
Forensic Medical Examination of A Corpse
Author(s): Kate Felmingham*
General Wadysaw Sikorski, the Prime Minister of the Polish government in exile, died in 1943, and his body was given to the Krakow Department of Forensic Medicine for forensic examination. The British committee looking into the tragedy determined it had been an accident after General Sikorski perished in the crash of a Liberator aircraft at Gibraltar. Concerns about the General's death have been raised on numerous occasions over the past few decades, and the assassination theory has gained a lot of traction. The General's body, which had been interred in the Royal Castle Church on Wawel Hill in Krakow, was dug up on November 25, 2008, and carefully investigated. Numerous fractures of the skull, spine, and limbs were found during the investigations, and their characteristics matched those of an aviation accident. It was impossible to determine whether the air crash had been cau.. View More»
DOI:
10.35248/2648-1312.22.7(3).129
