Oh For F*** Sake!

Steyr

WTF Like.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1242425/Racehorse-injured-jets-spooked-gets-bigger-MoD-payout-mortar-attack-victim.html

Farmer whose chickens were spooked by RAF jets gets a bigger MoD payout than wounded soldiers
By Scott Warren

Wounded British soldiers are being paid less compensation than members of the public who complain about noisy military jets.
Defence chiefs paid out £42,000 to a Staffordshire farmer whose chickens laid fewer eggs because they were frightened by the Red Arrows display team.
Another £117,000 was handed over to a Yorkshire racehorse owner after the animal injured itself when it was spooked by jets.

Someone in Devon banked £52,000 because low-flying aircraft on exercise sparked Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
A total of £7.6million has been in damages over the past four years because of military noise pollution, according to documents seen by the Sun newspaper.


Meanwhile, wounded soldiers such as Sean Chance receive a tiny fraction of that sum after suffering horrific injuries.
The Queen's Royal Hussars trooper was given £5,000 after part of his foot was blown off by a rocket propelled grenade in Iraqi in 2004.
Mr Chance, of Birmingham, said: 'There's no justice. I must live like this for the rest of my life. I should have gone into chicken farming.'
Sergeant Darren Stephens sustained terrible injuries to his arms and legs in a mortar attackin Iraq three years ago.
The 37-year-old, of Leeds, received £102,000 in compensation - £15,000 less than the injured racehorse.
He said: 'I don't know how they cook these figures up.'
Tory Shadow Defence Minister Andrew Murrison said: 'If you have devastating injuries sustained in the battlefield it does not bear comparison. There is a yawning disparity between these cases.'
The MoD said: 'Comparing payments made through the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme and civil litigation is misleading as it is not a like for like comparison.
'Seriously injured personnel also receive a guaranteed monthly income for life.'

poisonated

I think that the people such as the race horse owner and the person who suffered post traumatic stress disorder because of the army deserve the money they receive but the figures mentioned which were paid to the soldiers seem absolutely unjust.They are such small amounts.These soldiers deserve to be treated so much better.

Gunny Hartman

Absolute disgrace that the men and women who put themselves in harms way for their country are being treated like that. The government would want to pull the finger out there and take a good long look at themselves. Spelling mistakes on letters of condolences and paying chicken farmers more than wounded soldiers, what's next?

kowloon

This reminds me of that massive libel payout a while back (I can't even think of what it was for) and how people who had been molested as children were getting a fraction of the payout.

There's some serious imbalance out there.

L.Jenkins

Steyr wrote: »

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Meanwhile, wounded soldiers such as Sean Chance receive a tiny fraction of that sum after suffering horrific injuries.
The Queen's Royal Hussars trooper was given £5,000 after part of his foot was blown off by a rocket propelled grenade in Iraqi in 2004.
Mr Chance, of Birmingham, said: 'There's no justice. I must live like this for the rest of my life. I should have gone into chicken farming.'
Sergeant Darren Stephens sustained terrible injuries to his arms and legs in a mortar attackin Iraq three years ago.'

Seriously, compensating chicken farmers more! What are severly soldiers supposed to do with 5000 - 15000!!! Thats a load of bull****!

iceage

Load of bollix, MOD lawyers should insist that they visit Selly Oaks and meet some of the troops who have returned maimed, blinded or who have lost limbs, and in some cases all three! Money won't sort those guys out.

I wonder howe many of theses people have even bothered donating any of this won money to H4H or any of the BL charities or better still to the hospitals and medical staff that look after these guys when they leave hospital to pick up the pieces and then try and get on with they're lives........let me guess, None.

Its a mad world we're living in folks, and getting loopier by the day.