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Connery falls victim to road vandals

Sunday 17 August 1997 23:02 BST
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Sean Connery was recovering yesterday in his central-London home after a brick was hurled from a road bridge, smashing the front window of his Range Rover while he was driving and leaving him deeply shocked but not seriously hurt. The noise was so loud the actor thought it was a gun firing, his younger brother Neil Connery said yesterday.

The former 007 star, pictured, was returning home on Saturday afternoon from the set of his latest movie The Avengers, at Shepperton Studios in Surrey, when the vandals struck. He had left the studios early, complaining of stomach pains but insisted on driving himself home. Scotland Yard said Connery had not reported the incident but a spokesman added that a woman had recently complained of a brick thrown from a bridge above the A316 - the main road into central London from the studios.

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