An “extremely dangerous” attacker who shot a Police officer with a crossbow has been sentence to nine (9) years in jail.
54-year old Jason King fired the weapon at PC Curtis Foster after stabbing a male neighbour, in his 60s, following a brawl in Downley, Wycombe, in May last year.
PC Foster was shot in the leg by a crossbow bolt while King pursued after him alongside his fellow unarmed officer.
PC Foster said: “I knew something had impacted me, but my adrenaline was so high that the pain wasn’t really there.
“I first realised I was bleeding quite a lot when I could feel it running down my leg, and then I touched my leg with above my trousers, and my whole hand was red where it’d gone through my trousers already.”
PC Foster and his colleague ensured the area was cleared of civilians, while armed officers pursued King to a local park.
King also fired the crossbow at a Police dog, however, missed.
King was shot by an armed officer in the abdomen in order to stop him, and then arrested.
Injured PC Foster was medically attended to by paramedics.
PC Foster said: “There was a lot of blood. My two colleagues that turned up initially on scene were covered in my blood – that’s how much blood I’d lost.
“When we got to the hospital, the doctor had a fell of it and said that I was really lucky it didn’t strike an artery. It was a couple of centimetres away from hitting an artery in the back of my leg.”
