A FORENSIC anatomist has analysed the photographs claimed to be of a young and semi-naked Pauline Hanson - and delivered this verdict: "It is not her."

The young woman's neck is too short, her eyes too close together and her nose too narrow to be Ms Hanson, says Meiya Sutisno, who worked on identifications in the Falconio murder case and in the 2005 Bali bombings.

Dr Sutisno, a senior lecturer at the University of Technology Sydney, compared two pictures published in The Sunday Telegraph with current photographs of Hanson as well as images of her as a girl and young woman.

The good news for the newspaper, which Ms Hanson is suing for publishing the pictures, is that Dr Sutisno is convinced the photos are not doctored. The bad news: she is certain they are of another woman.

At first glance, she concedes, the young woman is strikingly like the Ms Hanson of today, a candidate in Saturday's Queensland election. That is particularly so when considering the "most striking similarities in her features: the eyes and the thin lips".

"But that is a subjective assessment," Dr Sutisno told the Herald yesterday. When she subjected the photos to a more rigorous facial mapping analysis, she was left with little doubt.

"The most obvious difference is the nose. The young woman's nasal bridge is high, prominent and projecting, and more narrow. Pauline Hanson's nasal bridge is quite wide and thick."

Might that not change with age? Or might Ms Hanson have had nose surgery? Perhaps, but then Dr Sutisno studied Pauline Hanson as a young child. "She already had a thick nasal bridge."

While the tip of Ms Hanson's nose was "fleshy", the other woman's was more defined and downward-pointing. "If Pauline was going to have surgery, you would think she would change her nose to make it look more like this young woman's."

Likewise, the childhood images of Ms Hanson showed her neck was long. The other woman's was much shorter. Continued...