Inventor trampled to death by cows

A former Oxford academic who became a millionaire after inventing a device for needle-free injections has been trampled to death in a field of cattle.

Professor Brian Bellhouse, 80, died despite efforts to revive him in a field in Church Lane in the village of Guestling, near Hastings, East Sussex, on Monday morning.

Magdalen College paid tribute to the former academic, who arrived there in 1957 to read for a degree in mathematics and later became a major donor to the college.