Shocking scans have revealed the cracks left in a young woman’s skull after she was kidnapped by her abusive ex-boyfriend and fell head-first onto a road from a van travelling at 60mph.
Angel Lynn, then 19, was kidnapped by her abusive ex-boyfriend Chay Bowskill, then 20, in September 2020.
He bundled her into a van in Rothley, Leicestershire, and drove away with her.
Angel, now 22, suffered catastrophic brain injuries that almost killed her when she fell out of the moving van head-first at 60mph on the A6 near Loughborough.
Bowskill claimed Angel had fallen or jumped from the van, but her mother Nikki Lynn, 48, believes she was pushed, despite him being cleared of grievous bodily harm.
Angel Lynn, then 19, (pictured) was kidnapped by her abusive ex-boyfriend Chay Bowskill, then 20, in September 2020
Shocking scans (pictured) have revealed devastating damage to the young woman’s skull after she fell from the van
The scans suggest she was left with two fractures – one across the top of her skull and down the left side of her face and another across her forehead and into her eye socket
Another scan (pictured) showed how Angel’s nose, eye socket and cheeks were injured from the head-first fall
Angel was left paralysed and unable to eat, walk or talk by herself.
Sickening CT scans have revealed the extent of her injuries that left her skull fractured.
In footage from Channel 4’s The Kidnap of Angel Lynn, consultant neurosurgeon Stuart Smith said it was clear she suffered ‘very severe’ injuries.
Angel’s ex-boyfriend Chay Bowskill was cleared of causing grievous bodily harm after it became unclear how she had left the van
The bubbly college student from Loughborough (pictured with her mother Nikki) had wanted to become a forensic scientist for the police
She suffered catastrophic brain injuries that almost killed her when she fell out of the moving van head-first at 60mph on the A6 near Loughborough. Pictured: Angel awake in Hospital in Nottingham
Pointing at the huge crack in her skull, 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.
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‘Her injury was so devastating and so severe, there was a very real chance that Angel wouldn’t survive.’
The scans suggest she was left with two fractures – one across the top of her skull and down the left side of her face and another across her forehead and into her eye socket.
Another CT scan showed how Angel’s nose, eye socket and cheeks were injured from the fall.
During the Channel 4 programme, viewers were shown dozens of abusive texts messages from her controlling ex-boyfriend in which he called her a ‘stupid c***’ ‘b****’, and a ‘divvy little slag’.
Angel’s father Patrick, 53, said Angel had initially 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 mother Nikki, 48, said: ‘He would message all the time. Message, message, message – her phone was lit up.
‘They said she was rolling down the road like a football. I think he pushed her out the van.’
Bowskill was cleared of causing grievous bodily harm after it became unclear how Angel had left the van.
Angel Lynn, now 22, suffered catastrophic brain injuries when she fell out of a moving van head-first at 60mph
Chay Bowskill, 20, (pictured), from Syston, Leicestershire, was convicted of kidnap, coercive and controlling behaviour and perverting the course of justice following a trial at Leicester Crown Court
However, in January 2022, he was handed a seven-and-a-half-year sentence after being found guilty of kidnap, coercive and controlling behaviour, and perverting the course of justice, following a trial at Leicester Crown Court.
His sentence was then nearly doubled after senior judges at the Court of Appeal concluded his original term for the kidnap was not long enough and handed him four-and-a-half more years.
Sansome received 21 months. Bowkill’s sentence was later increased to 12 years, although Sansome’s was not changed.
Bowskill, of Syston, Leicestershire, was also convicted of coercive and controlling behaviour and perverting the course of justice.
