A TEENAGER repeatedly denied breaking her baby daughter’s leg during cross-examination at Oxford Crown Court yesterday.

Jade Collison, 19, of Juniper Close, Banbury, has pleaded not guilty to one count of inflicting grievous bodily harm during January last year. She also denies one count of inflicting actual bodily harm on her daughter, whom the Oxford Mail has decided not to name.

Prosecutor Sam Mainds said doctors discovered the injury after the infant, then six months old, was taken to Banbury’s Horton Hospital on January 29 with bruises to her face.

Yesterday, Collison repeated her claim that her then boyfriend Ashley Dening stepped on the baby getting out of bed.

But Mr Mainds accused her of lying and said: “You caused the baby an injury that caused a break on her leg.”

The witness replied: “No.”

The prosecutor added: “It was what the doctor called a ‘non-accidental injury’.” Collison said: “No.”

Later Mr Mainds said: “It is the prosecution’s case that you caused that injury to her face.”

The defendant said: “No.”

The barrister told her the baby would have been “screaming, upset and unhappy” because of the broken bone.

He said: “You lost it and hit her, didn’t you?” Collison said: “No.”

The trial continues.

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