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Police officers used thermal imaging to rescue a missing pensioner who feared for his life after he got trapped in brambles and couldn't free himself.
Lynton Bradley, 76, had been walking near Coleshill, Warwickshire on 12 November when he strayed off course and fell into a ditch, which left him tangled in brambles in dense shrubland.
The footage, which has been posted on the West Midlands Police Twitter, shows the force's specialist search unit rescuing the pensioner from the woodland by using thermal imaging from a helicopter.
Lynton Bradley, 76, had been walking near Coleshill, Warwickshire on 12 November when he strayed off course and fell into a ditch. He was located by thermal imaging
The video, which has been posted on the West Midlands Police Twitter, shows the force's specialist search unit rescuing the pensioner after tracing his phone signal
After getting stuck, Mr Bradley, called his son Steve, from Peterborough, to say he was stuck in the ditch and couldn't bend down to release himself from the sharp brambles.
His son contacted West Midlands Police who managed to trace Mr Bradley's phone signal shortly before the battery went flat, which pointed to a wooded area near the M6 and Collector Road, Warwickshire.
Officers used thermal imaging from a helicopter to detect a heat source down an embankment, which showed Mr
