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Janet Llwellyn, 66, was killed after being hit on the head by a stray golf ball as she played a practice round at Strathendrick Golf Course near Drymen, Stirlingshire, on 1 October 2009. The Scottish widow was airlifted to hospital in Glasgow, but died the next day. Sun, D.Express, 8 Oct 2009.

Last April, Dieudonne Masha and a neighbour were walking home along the shores of Lake Kivu in eastern Congo after an evening of drinking when they encountered two soldiers who asked to see their ID cards. Mr Masha didn’t have his on him, so he ran away and hid in a rocky ditch.