The family of a rancher dejected to genocide by his own flock have purported the animals were unsettled by the lights and sounds of a glow engine streamer to a circuitously emergency. Photograph: David Sillitoe
A firefighter has been arrested after a rancher was dejected to genocide by stampeding cows that might have been spooked by a glow engine"s summons and flashing lights, it emerged today.
Harold Lee, of Robins Farm, in Burtle, circuitously Bridgwater, Somerset, was fatally harmed when he was trampled by his own flock last August.
His family have purported the animals were unsettled by the puncture lights and sounds of the glow engine that was streamer to a circuitously emergency.
Lee, who was 75, died in sanatorium five days after he was left with serious head and chest injuries.
Police launched an exploration and after 6 months officers reliable a 49-year old-man from Somerset has been arrested on guess of killing by negligence. The unnamed man has been bailed until the finish of this week.
Lee"s son Andrew has purported the incident could have been avoided had the glow organisation waited for only a couple of mins as the cows were safely herded off the road.
Andrew Lee said: "We have regularly pronounced this situation should not have happened.Things are flattering tender at the impulse and will be until we get a little answers as to because he died. He was a family man and a village man. He lived for Burtle - that was his hold up and he desired it."
A orator for the Devon and Somerset glow and rescue use refused to criticism about the arrest. Earlier the use has pronounced the organisation was on the approach to a trade collision.
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