The Ministry of Defence has been condemned amid claims it paid less compensation to an injured soldier than to a farmer whose chickens were disturbed by RAF jets.
The MoD paid £42,000 to a poultry farmer in Staffordshire because his hens laid fewer eggs after they were frightened by the Red Arrows display team.
Meanwhile, Trooper Sean Chance, 23, of the Queen’s Royal Hussars, received £5,000 after part of his foot was blown off while serving in Iraq in 2004.
Trooper Chance, from Birmingham, who lost three toes when he was injured by a rocket propelled grenade, said: “There’s no justice. I must live like this for the rest of my life. I should have gone into chicken farming.”
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