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