SIDELINES…
AIR ARM
A one-armed man crashed his plane after a DIY prosthetic limb became detached mid-flight. The 69-year-old amputee, formerly a doctor specialising in prosthetics, had created a homemade device to replace his missing left forearm, but this became disconnected from the controls while the plane was around 5ft (1.5m) above ground. The pilot was uninjured but his Jodel D117A light aircraft was damaged. He has subsequently attached the prosthetic limb to the control column with a Velcro strip. D.Mail, 17 Apr 2020.
MERSEY CLOWN TERROR
A “creepy thug” wearing a black-and-white clown outfit chased two frightened young girls through a Liverpool park, jumping out from behind a bush before laughing hysterically like “something out of the movies”. The two girls, both aged 12, were walking in Liverpool’s Walton Hall Park around 9pm when the incident
