British record label boss, shot by son, remains in coma

0 Comments | AFP, June, 2006

LONDON (AFP) — Jill Sinclair, whose ZTT Records label introduced such British acts as Frankie Goes To Hollywood and Seal to music fans worldwide, remained in an induced coma in hospital, two days after she was accidentally shot by her own son, a spokeswoman said.

Her record producer husband Trevor Horn and their children were reportedly at her side at Royal Berkshire Hospital, west of London, where her condition was listed as "unchanged but stable."

Sinclair, 54, was hit in the neck Sunday when her son Aaron, 22, who was home from university, was doing target practice with an air rifle in the garden of their manor house in Checkendon village, Berkshire.

"Everyone's hoping for the best and our thoughts are with the family," said a spokesman for ZTT Records,...