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Sutton St James: Police officer was shot in the face
News from The Peterborough Evening Telegraph, www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk
Friday, 3.15pm: The officer whose injury sparked off an armed police siege at the end of which a man died was shot in the face.
Lincolnshire Police has revealed that the officer injured in the Sutton St James siege on Tuesday had a bullet lodged in his cheek.
It was initially thought that the officer had been hit by ricocheting glass after a shot was fired at his car at 11am, but upon arriving at hospital a bullet was found.
Miraculously the bullet did not do serious damage and he was discharged from hospital the same day.
Police would not go into details about the gun used, but confirm it was neither an air rifle pellet nor was it shot from a shotgun cartridge.
The incident sparked an 11-hour siege in Chapelgate, which ended when 61-year-old Barry Horspool was founded dead in the bedroom of his home.
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