Great News: Hunting Guest Of Louis Bacon Not Permanently Blinded By Bullets To The Face
His throat and arms, also hit, are okay, too.
The chairman of auction house Sotheby’s has been shot in the face during a grouse shoot. Henry Wyndham would have been blinded had he not been wearing glasses when the accident occurred last Monday, the first day of the grouse shooting season. The Old Etonian was standing at his post – referred to in the shooting world as a grouse ‘butt’ – when a neighbouring gun was accidentally fired towards him, spraying shot in his arm, throat and face. Mr Wyndham was airlifted to hospital from the Scottish moor where the incident took place. He was treated for 52 lead pellet wounds. The accident took place on a hired estate on a shoot organised by American hedge-fund manager Louis Bacon, 56.
Sotheby’s Chairman Henry Wyndham Shot On Grouse Moor [Bloomberg]
Sotheby's chief airlifted from grouse shoot after being blasted by 52 pellets [DailyMail]