A MALVERN man fed up of being terrorised by a crow has taken matters into his own hands and killed the bird.

Jeffrey Worth, of Knoll Lane, shot the crow, which has spent the last two mon-ths attacking car windscreen wipers around St Andrew's Church, on Wednesday morning.

He tracked the crow before shooting it in the head with a .22 air rifle, fitted with a telescopic sight.

Mr Worth, 59, said he was fed up with the damage caused to his neighbours' cars as well as his own.

"We've all had scratches from it's claws on our bonnets," he said, "I've been watching it and I've noticed it's been going for the black rubber strips in the double glazing in people's housing, and that's causing even more damage."

Andrew Fraser, countryside manager for the Worcester-shire Wildlife Trust, said that there was no real policy on the shooting of crows.

"Obviously everyone has a wish to protect their personal property, but it's certainly something I wouldn't condone in an urban area," he said.

A spokesman for West Mercia Police said: "The law states that you shouldn't discharge an air weapon within 50 feet of a highway. We would caution anyone who wishes to discharge a weapon to be careful where the shot is going to land, as it could be classified as an offence."

A MALVERN man fed up of being terrorised by a crow has taken matters into his own hands and killed the bird.

Jeffrey Worth, of Knoll Lane, shot the crow, which has spent the last two mon-ths attacking car windscreen wipers around St Andrew's Church, on Wednesday morning.

He tracked the crow before shooting it in the head with a .22 air rifle, fitted with a telescopic sight.

Mr Worth, 59, said he was fed up with the damage caused to his neighbours' cars as well as his own.

"We've all had scratches from it's claws on our bonnets," he said, "I've been watching it and I've noticed it's been going for the black rubber strips in the double glazing in people's housing, and that's causing even more damage."

Andrew Fraser, countryside manager for the Worcester-shire Wildlife Trust, said that there was no real policy on the shooting of crows.

"Obviously everyone has a wish to protect their personal property, but it's certainly something I wouldn't condone in an urban area," he said.

A spokesman for West Mercia Police said: "The law states that you shouldn't discharge an air weapon within 50 feet of a highway. We would caution anyone who wishes to discharge a weapon to be careful where the shot is going to land, as it could be classified as an offence."