X-ray ... pellet sits next to Sandor's brain

HAYLEY DOYLE

The Sun

Published: 7/10/09

BRAVE Sandor Cevek has survived for 38 years with a rifle bullet lodged in his head.

Sandor, 57, had been celebrating a wedding when his cousin accidently shot him in 1971.

Doctors refused to remove the bullet because it was too close to his brain.

The retired butcher, from Suza, Croatia, takes four different types of medication to cope with paralysis to his left hand and foot caused by the wounds.

It is tradition for families at Croatian weddings to let fly with a volley of gunfire to mark the ceremony.

Tough Sandor told local newspaper 24 Sata: "I never even asked my cousin Istvan about it. I just wanted to keep the family ties.

"I didn't want there to be any bad feeling."