Medical and forensic assessment of incised neck injuries caused by self-inflicted injuries

In modern forensic practice, experts are often faced with the need to establish whether the injuries found in a person could have been self-inflicted. At the same time, it is important for the investigation not only to establish the possibility of self-harm, but also to compare the circumstances of the case with objective data obtained as a result of a forensic medical examination. The investigation is often complicated by the absence, in the opinion of the examiners, of a traumatic object appropriate to the circumstances at the scene. Medical and forensic studies in such cases play a key role, providing objective information about the nature of injuries, their localization, morphological features and, most importantly, about the possibility of their infliction by the victims themselves. Special attention and comprehensive analysis on the part of experts require situations where a person inflicts significant and numerous injuries on himself with an object that at first glance is not capable of causing these injuries, and there are no witnesses to suicide. The article examines the case when a citizen, while in the courthouse, inflicted fatal damage on himself with foil from food packaging for detainees.