Football fan still suffering months after being shot in Perth

A member of the Tartan Army has had to live with an air pellet lodged in his stomach for seven months, after he was shot in Perth.

Sandy Lumsden, 44, of Letham, was walking down South Street following a night out after watching his team, St Johnstone, play against Dundee United.

Then, at around 1.20am on May 5, the lorry driver was shot in the abdomen.

Mr Lumsden, who was on the front cover of a book about the Tartan Army called Final Whistle, was taken to Perth Royal Infirmary, where doctors found a half-inch pellet under his skin.

He was transferred to Ninewells Hospital in Dundee, for surgery to try and remove the pellet but, after six months of pain and discomfort, it is still lodged in his body.

He said: “The bullet is still inside me.

“The doctors reckoned it would come out on its own but it hasn’t. It’s just annoying more than anything else. At work I have to lean over crates and, if it gets shoved in, it hurts.

“I have to wait to see a surgeon to see if there’s anything they can do. They’ll decide whether to take it out or leave it in.”

A 35-year-old man had been charged with a firearms offence but is understood to have been given a fiscal’s release.