Shrewsbury call-out paramedic stole cash from collapsed 94-year-old

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Paramedic steals money from elderly woman who has just died

Apr 7 2023

The son of a 94-year-old Shrewsbury woman, has posted video footage of the paramedic who pocketed cash from her home just moments after she had died.
Mark Titley of Linley Avenue, Pontesbury, was given an 18-week prison sentence suspended for 12 months when he admitted theft at Shrewsbury Crown Court.
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Shrewsbury call-out paramedic stole cash from collapsed 94-year-old

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A paramedic stole cash from a 94-year-old patient after being called to her aid when she collapsed in her garden.

Mark Titley, 58, was caught on camera pocketing about £60 from a box after entering the patient's home in Shrewsbury on 29 June 2022.

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At Shrewsbury Crown Court on Tuesday, Titley, of Linley Avenue, Pontesbury, admitted theft.

He was handed an 18-week suspended jail sentence and ordered to carry out 120 hours of unpaid work and pay costs of £530 as well as a £187 victim surcharge.

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[Phoenix61]

1. I'm sure that's the first and only time he ever did that. NOT! nt

[The Jungle 1]

3. Plus he is not the only one doing it.

The look on his face when he saw the camera was great.

[jimfields33]

2. Can you imagine how much this was done before cameras.

Probably more then we can imagine.

[The Jungle 1]

4. Why wasn't he fired?

[tanyev]

5. Horrible. I'm suspicious that something similar happened to my mom.

She fell and broke her ankle one weekend I was visiting her. Called the ambulance and the town is so small the closest hospital is in a town 30 miles away. I handed her purse to one of the EMTs so she would have her ID when she got there and got ready to follow in my car. Didn't think twice about it because the ambulance service is owned and operated by a family in the church mom has attended for decades. The two EMTS on this call were not members of that family, but again, very small town--everybody knows each other.

As it turned out, it wasn't even necessary. I'd assumed they'd get to the hospital long before me, but I caught up enough that I could see them ahead of me on the road for the last few miles. By the time Mom's purse made its way back to me there was no cash in the wallet. I didn't even realize this until a few days later when Mom was making more sense and she asked me to get something and told me to take the money out of her wallet. So I have no proof and Mom could have been mistaken, or some petty thief is using his position of trust to take advantage of vulnerable people. Grr.