A MALVERN company has come up with a body armour vest specifically for civilians.
Among the first customers for the personal armour are community workers on the London estate where schoolboy Damilola Taylor was killed last year.
The vest was invented by Malvern-based Lorica Research Ltd, which has joined forces with Leicester-based Jack Ellis Body Protection.
It was due to be tested today (Friday) in front of potential customers at a shooting range in Worcestershire.
The armoured vest will be attacked with knives, axes, pistols and shotguns to show just how resilient it is.
Digby Dyke, of Lorica, said the vest was aimed at all those whose "honest occupations expose them to risk", including paramedics, taxi drivers, public transport workers and security guard.
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