Scans show the horrific cracks to a woman’s skull after she was kidnapped by a controlling boyfriend and fell from a van into the road at 60mph.
Angel Lynn, now 22, was left needing round-the-clock care after being found on the carriageway of the A6 near Loughborough in September 2020.
Her former boyfriend Chay Bowskill is serving a 12-year jail term for kidnap, coercive and controlling behaviour, and perverting the course of justice after grabbing her off the street and forcing her into a silver transit, driven by his accomplice Rocco Sansome, of Birstall, Leicestershire.
She was left with catastrophic brain injuries, and newly released CT scans now show the sickening skull fractures.
On Channel 4’s The Kidnap of Angel Lynn, consultant neurosurgeon Stuart Smith said she suffered “very severe” injuries.
He said: "This area here is fractured, it's been split open from the force of the impact.
"To fracture the skull to that degree takes an incredible degree of force.
"Her injury was so devastating and so severe, there was a very real chance that Angel wouldn't survive.'
Scans show fractures across the top of her skull, down the side of her face and on her forehead.
While another image shows her nose, eye socket and cheeks injuries.
Bowskill claimed Angel had fallen or jumped from the van as it travelled at 60mph, but her mother Nikki Lynn believes that she was pushed.
Angel's injuries were so severe that doctors feared she would not survive but now she has been able to stand and communicate more.
Angel's dad Patrick, 53, said Angel had at first denied she was dating Bowskill.
He said: "She must've been ashamed of him because he wasn't a good boy. She was my angel. She's just daddy's girl."
Her mum Nikki, 48, said: "He would message all the time. Message, message, message - all the time her phone was lit up. Wherever he went she went with him.
"At that age you can't say, ''you can't do this.'' She had her own car, you can't ground her. I felt helpless.”
Speaking on BBC Breakfast on Tuesday, on a positive note Nikki told how her daughter is progressing with her recovery.
"She's doing really good actually with the moving. The physios what she's got are amazing, they are really good," she said.
"She gets a bit moody sometimes when she's being bent around but yeah, it's doing her the world of good."
