Daniel Kennedy, 25, a father of two, walked outside to challenge a group of teenagers who had switched off the water supply to his block of flats.
This turned into an altercation and the victim chased the teens down a footpath. One of them turned on the victim and fired a sawn-off shotgun into his chest from point-blank range.
The shotgun used in the attack
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Recounting his brush with death, Kennedy told Chester Crown Court: "He spun round. I saw him holding a big silver thing in his hand. There was a flash in front of me and I felt a burning sensation in the bottom of my body. It took me off my feet." The gun was fired from a range of just five feet.
Pathologist Dr Brian Rogers told the court how Kennedy's iPhone had saved his life. "If one of those pellets had [hit] his aorta and gone into a vital organ, it would have led to significant internal haemorrhaging. He would have lost too much blood and would have died before he got to hospital.
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