Jail for paramedic who stole from a corpse

A paramedic who stole a dead patient's credit cards was beginning a one-year jail sentence last night.

David Wright rifled through the pockets of suspected heart attack victim David Denbow as the 66-year-old lay dead in his back garden.

He came across three credit cards and a piece of paper with a PIN code written on it as he treated Mr Denbow.

Hours later he was captured by CCTV cameras as he withdrew Mr Denbow's money from a cash machine.

Still in his uniform, Wright took out two lots of £250 - the maximum allowed per card.

Judge Abbas Mithani told him: "It is an essential part of the ambulance service that they display the utmost honesty and integrity. Essentially, you stole from a dead person - a fact that rightly generates a considerable amount of revulsion among ordinary, decent people."