2 men hurt in pub shooting

A GUN attack outside a city centre pub left two men wounded in hospital.

Police were called to the pub in the Jordan Well area of Coventry at 12.30am yesterday and found a 22-year-old man with head injuries and another, aged 26, with arm wounds.

A West Midlands Police spokesman said: “Fortunately neither are believed to be life-threatening.”

Police are now hunting the attacker and have appealed for witnesses to come forward.

A DEVASTATED father says his marriage has fallen apart after his wife sent £20,000 to an online scammer posing as an American war hero.

Steve Roberts, 50, is one of hundreds of people a year whose lives have been wrecked by “romance fraud” swindlers preying on unhappy or lonely women.

A former government counter-fraud adviser reveals the number of known cases are just the “tip of an iceberg” because victims are usually too embarrassed to report it.

And latest figures show nearly a thousand known people were swindled out of nearly £8MILLION in the first six months of this year.

Steve’s wife fell into the trap after a Nigerian scammer messaged her on social media posing as a US serviceman.

He gave her the sob story that he needed cash to fund medical treatment for his sick child – but that the money needed to be wired to Nigeria.

No alarm bells rang – and if they had, a Google image search would have revealed the sick crook was using a dead US soldier’s picture that had been used by other romance fraudsters

Steve’s unsuspecting wife wired the swindler thousands of pounds.

CONFESSED