Contractor fined after desperate bats attack tenant

A contractor has been fined after a large number of bats were killed as a result of building work at a sheltered housing site where the survivors attacked a tenant.
The victim was admitted to hospital with bite wounds after more than 150 bats flew into his living quarters and bedroom from the house’s roof structure where they had been trapped.
When ecology experts examined the property in Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire, they identified the animals as Soprano Pipistrelle bats