This article was published a couple of years ago in the Daily Record (25 November 2011), if anyone knows, or is friends with Steven we’d love to hear from you.

Soldier injured after being attacked by hyena on training exercise in Kenya

A SCOTS squaddie has been savaged by a hyena on a training exercise in Kenya.

Private Steven Wishart was dragged from his sleeping bag by the beast. But it was scared off when one of his colleagues shone a torch on it.

Steven, from Arbroath, Angus, suffered bites on his leg and was taken to Nairobi for treatment. There, he was given jabs for rabies and other diseases. Steven, who had been at the Army’s training unit for three weeks, said: “I might change the story a little bit in the pub.”

Garrison Radio’s Rafe Parker interviewed Steven the day after the attack.

He said: “He was telling me he will be left with scars but he was really upbeat.

“If he had been that ill, he wouldn’t have been hopping around. He talked about how scared he was at the time and that he was screaming.”
Medic Major Peter Starkey said only one of Steven’s comrades saw the attack.

He added: “We have taken photographs of the puncture marks on his leg and emailed them to the Natural History Museum where they’re going to make that definitive call that it was a hyena.”