2009: PARAMEDIC JAILED FOR PATIENT SEX ASSAULT
A paramedic from Scarning who sexually assaulted a teenage woman as she lay in a state of near-paralysis in the back of an ambulance was jailed yesterday.Iain Finney, 33, indecently touched the 19-year-old and took pictures of her on his mobile phone, Norwich Crown Court heard.
Although the woman had been virtually unable to move, she was aware of what was happening and complained to a nurse when she reached the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital.
Finney, who worked for the East of England Ambulance Trust, had been responding to an emergency call to Mercy nightclub in Prince of Wales Road, Norwich, on April 5 last year.
The court heard he disposed of his mobile phone after the incident, claiming it was broken and that he had been using his wife's phone that night.
Last month, Finney admitted sexual assault and attempting to pervert the course of justice.
He was sentenced to nine months in jail and placed on the sex offenders' register for 10 years.
The judge noted the victim's incapacitated state and breach of trust as aggravating factors, emphasizing the importance of trust in paramedics and medical professionals.
