Special Branch

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Special branch

By GUY PATRICK
Published: Today

Spoiler:

A ROOKIE cop was so determined to make his first arrest he chased a suspect despite having a BRANCH stuck in his eye.

PC John Nash, 25, only realised the horrific extent of the injury after the man he arrested told him: “Mate, you’ve got to go to hospital.”
John had been in the force only six days when he started pursuing two cars being driven erratically.
Recovering ... John now

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One of the cars pulled over and the PC began to chase the men — but he slipped head-first into a bush and skewered his eye on the end of a branch.
The six-inch piece of wood snapped off but, incredibly, John was unaware how badly he was hurt. It had pierced his eyelid, smashed a cheekbone, forced itself under his eyeball and had come to rest against his brain. But John carried on chasing one of the men in Rochdale, Gtr Manchester.
He said: “I thought I’d hit my baton as I fell. I just thought I’d given myself a black eye.
“The suspect was still trying to get over a fence and I grabbed his ankle. He kept referring to my face and I said, ‘That doesn’t matter — come on’. Then somebody said, ‘Get an ambulance quick’. I wondered whether he was talking about me.”
John underwent three hours of surgery at Blackburn Royal Hospital, Lancs. He has retained some sight in the eye and hopes it will return to normal.
Surgeon Annaswami Vijaykumar said: “If the wood had entered a few millimetres differently the eye would have been permanently damaged.” John, who is engaged, added: “I would do the same again tomorrow. I love my job.”
The suspect was later released.



http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...cle2157978.ece

Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick eh?

[Brock]

They said he had got the point and was going to branch out on a new career and would be turning over a new leaf.

[Geko]

Some may say this is commendable. I personally think it means the entry exam should be harder.

[C3Grimmy]

I personally think it means the entry exam should be harder.

i dont I think the prisons should be bigger & more should get longer sentences

[rudey]

got to take your hat off to him

[greens117]

Imagine if the branch was longer and came out of his you no what !,give a whole new meaning to spit roast ***

[willp2003]

"The suspect was later released"

bet he's gutted - credit to him tho, although surely he'd be able to see the stick poking out of his face with his other eye?