Police appeal for witnesses after horse is shot in head

Animal had to be put down after 'brutal and unprecedented' attack in Cowley, Gloucestershire Police have urged witnesses to help them track down a gunman who shot a horse in the head in the Cotswolds. The four-year-old mare was shot while in the pasture at North Barn farm in Cowley, near Cheltenham, in what Gloucestershire police said was a "brutal and unprecedented" attack.