A MURDER trial jury has heard expert evidence linking a 22-year-old man to two bite marks on the arms of a four-year-old girl.
Leticia Wright died of multiple injuries while she was living with Peter Seaton and her 23-year-old mother, Sharon Wright, at Almondbury Bank, in Huddersfield last November.
The pair have denied causing Leticia's injuries, but the prosecution has alleged that one of them or both of them had fatally wounded the girl.
Yesterday, Nicholas Campbell QC, prosecuting, read extracts from the statement of consultant oral pathologist Dr Geoffrey Craig, who examined suspected bite marks on the child's body and compared them with impressions of Mr Seaton's teeth and an X-ray of Miss Wright's teeth.
Dr Craig concluded that Mr Seaton was responsible for the two marks and that Mr Wright could be excluded.
"Peter Seaton is identified, for all practical purposes, by the two bite marks," he said.
Miss Wright, of Almondbury Bank, Moldgreen, Huddersfield, and her then boyfriend, Mr Seaton, of Meadow Lane, Northallerton, both deny murder.
The trial, at Bradford Crown Court, continues.
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