A young boy died when a falling tree fell on him during a pheasant shoot. An inquest heard that Jacob Gallon, nine, received a fatal head injury in the incident on January 29 this year as Storm Malik hit.
Jacob had been on the Heath House estate, near Tean, in Staffordshire, with his father Daniel Gallon at around 1pm. A part of a nearby tree split from the trunk and fell on to him, Stoke-on-Trent Live reports.
The air ambulance and other emergency services attended the scene, but nothing could be done to save Jacob, from Longton. Jacob and his dad had been walking to the third shoot of the day when the accident happened.
