Disabled Scots war veteran injured in bomb blast has lifeline car vandalised in callous attack

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A disabled Scots war veteran who was injured in a bomb blast while serving for his country has had his lifeline specially adapted car vandalised in a callous attack.Joe Patterson, 64, served in the Royal Marine for nine years between 1974 and 1983.

The war hero, who suffers from PTSD, was eventually discharged after suffering a head and foot injury following a blast while on foot patrol in Northern Ireland in 1980.Joe, from East Calder in West Lothian, has been unable to move his right foot since the he was injured, meaning he has to drive a specially adapted automatic car with a left-foot accelerator.

However, just days after Christmas on Wednesday, December 28, the vehicle was covered in glue outside his home on Firbank Grove by a sick thug who caused hundreds of pounds worth of damage and left Joe without use of the vehicle while it's resprayed.Speaking to the Record, Joe said: "The fact that someone has gone out of their way to destroy this car is unbelievable.

It has made both me and my wife so angry. "I felt dreadful seeing it destroyed like this. The car is adapted because my right foot doesn't work after I was injured in the bomb blast."We will be without the car while it has to be away to be resprayed."Police have since launched a probe into the incident.