A BUSINESSMAN shot in front of his two-year-old son in a street attack in Central Asia has won an Appeal Court victory against his former employer.

Sean Daley, from Bicester, was shot in the back in Kyrgyzstan on the same day he was made redundant from his job as the chief executive of Camco Corporation.

The 49-year-old was running a wool mill for Camco’s parent company, Environmental Recycling Technologies, in the former Soviet republic.

On Tuesday, after a three-year legal battle with the firm, based near Caerphilly, in South Wales, the Appeal Court ruled that Mr Daley was owed more than £200,000.

The father-of-three was employed by the firm for seven years and worked in the UK and Kyrgyzstan.

He was shot in July 2006 and spent three months in hospital. He has been unable to work since the attack.

Last year, he sued his former employer for salary and pension money at Oxford County Court.

Judge Charles Harris decided Mr Daley was owed the money.

But his former employer appealed, making a counter claim and accusing Mr Daley of fraud and being far from clear and forthright in his evidence.

Earlier this week, the appeal was thrown out by three of the country’s top judges.

Mr Daley said: “I believed it was all over when the county court handed down its judgment in April last year.

“My former employer appealed and lost that.

“But I was fully confident in the British legal system and didn’t think for a moment they were going to succeed.

“I was gunned down in front of my two-year-old son. There were four shots, and the second hit me in the lower back.

“I was conscious, albeit I could not go anywhere. I hit the ground like a sack of spuds.

“Louis, now four, was jumping on my chest. My injuries were appalling.

“I lost my right kidney and the bullet is still in my liver. From my torso upwards, I could have auditioned for a part in Jaws.

“But I shouldn’t complain, as the surgeon saved my life.”

After the attack Mr Daley discovered he was not covered by medical insurance, which he claims was part of his contract with ERM.

Mr Daley said: “With appalling injuries, infection and septicaemia set in. But I was lucky enough to have a couple of friends in other businesses who got £30,000 to fly me out.”

His wife Karen, a nurse, said that she had to get clean sheets from a hotel and sterilise the bed with vodka.

Mr Daley said: “The injuries were pretty appalling and the scars were horrendous.”

Rejecting ERM’s appeal at a hearing in London, Lady Justice Smith said: “It follows Camco was plainly in breach of the terms of Mr Daley’s contract of employment, in that it was not honouring his remuneration package.”

Mr Daley has launched a separate legal claim against the company for failure to provide medical and personal injury insurance.

No-one at ERM was available for comment on the ruling.