A claim for personal injury compensation has been made by a man injured in a bizarre shooting incident.
The incident took place when Ivan Pearce was struck in the neck by a ricochet from a police firearm, which smashed through his front window of the room where he was sitting.
Two dogs, a Rottweiler and an American bulldog puppy, which had escaped from a nearby property, were terrorising members of the public on the fateful day and police were called in to intervene.
The ten stone Rottweiler had already attacked and hospitalised a local man and a police officer was shot dead by a police marksman but Mr. Pearce was injured in the process and has now launched a claim for personal injury compensation against the Cheshire police force.