The number of attackers serving more than 6 months in jail after being convicted of assaulting an emergency worker halved last year to just 0.5%, LBC analysis has revealed.
What’s more, just 10 of 30,000 offenders caught punching, spitting at and even sexually assaulting paramedics, police and firefighters received the maximum one-year term between July 2020 and June 2022.
"At the moment we have a workforce that is under pressure, stressed and responding to emergencies when they've been waiting for hours. Patients are worried and can be quite aggressive. In October 2022, paramedic Charlotte Miller was sexually assaulted by a patient she was tending to in Central London.
"I was quite frightened, scared and felt incredibly vulnerable. I also felt very angry this had happened to me. I was there to help this individual, but the individual had other means. I felt very vulnerable and frightened". Yet, despite the nature of his assault, Ahmed did not receive the maximum sentence of two years - nor did he receive a sentence equating to the previous maximum sentence of one year. He was jailed for just nine months.
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