A DRAYMAN today re-lived the moment he was shot after being caught up in a drive-by shooting spree while delivering to a Welsh village pub.

Ex-soldier and TA volunteer, Andy Fortuna, dodged live bullets during service in Iraq, Bosnia and Northern Ireland.

But he could not believe it when he was shot in the leg with an air rifle in the tiny village of Trevor on the outskirts of Wrexham.

The 47-year-old Thwaites deliveryman, of Spinning Avenue, Guide, said the bullet narrowly missed the face of his delivery partner who was climbing out of the Australia Arms pub's cellar.

The gunman, who was driving a blue car and holding the air rifle out of the window, went on to shoot another person and has still not been captured by police.

Mr Fortuna said he had been throwing barrels down to his colleague, James Seymour, when he heard a "shot ring out" as a car drove past and then felt a sharp stinging pain as the bullet hit his leg.

He said: "I just heard the noise and felt the stinging in my leg.

"The pellet was lodged between my trousers and had bruised and broken my skin slightly, but if my leg hadn't been there then it would have hit James in the face.

"It was only an air rifle but they can kill. Initially I looked across the road to see if any windows were open in the building opposite but they weren't.

"I then saw this blue car with the rifle sticking out of the window speeding away and we called the police.

"I have dodged live rounds in places like Bosnia and come face to face with machine guns so I have seen a lot worse than this you just don't expect it to happen when you are going about your everyday job.

"What did strike me was how good a shot the driver must have been to have hit me while moving. I am making a fast recovery and just have some bruising."

Paul Howarth, retail director for Daniel Thwaites Brewery, said Mr Fortuna was an agency worker from Bibby Distribution, employed by Thwaites.

He said he believed that the protective clothing that Thwaites draymen wear on deliveries may have helped to lessen the bullet's impact.

Australia Arms landlord Lee Bower said the incident had come as a shock "especially seeing as they had only been in the pub for four weeks."

He said: "I didn't actually see the shooting as I was still in the cellar but we called the police who sent out the armed response unit.

"At that stage we didn't know what he had been shot with or whether the gunman would go on to shoot others."

North Wales police are investigating and have launched a witness appeal.