Cleveland Police have welcomed a sentence handed down to a man who was yesterday convicted of smashing car windows at James Cook University Hospital.
31-year-old Callum Wood, of Rothbury Road in Middlesbrough, was charged with four counts of attempted theft from a motor vehicle after an incident at the hospital car park on Sunday 29th March at around 2:30pm.
Callum Wood
Detective Constable Elizabeth Malcolm, from Middlesbrough CID, said:
“At a time of national crisis, this man has broken into vehicles belonging to NHS staff and tried to steal from them.
“It’s appalling that anyone would do this at any time, let alone when our NHS colleagues are working flat out and putting themselves at risk for others.
“Coupled with Callum Wood’s previous offending, he was quite rightly sentenced to 3 months consecutive for each offence, a total of 12 months imprisonment.
“We welcome the sentence and want to warn anyone else who thinks it is acceptable to behave in such a manner, or who causes fear or harm in the current climate, we will find those responsible and we will prosecute them.”
CLICK here to join our Emergency Services News community on Facebook.
Our social media group/community is open to both the public and emergency services personnel.
It is also a great place to share any emergency services related content (such as videos) which you have filmed.
If you have a story or video that you would like us to cover/share, then you can contact our team via contact@emergency-services.news
We also cover stories which relate to the NHS, the armed forces and the security services.
Before you go...
We need your help. As former emergency services & armed forces personnel, we pride ourselves on bringing you important, fast-moving and breaking news stories & videos which are free from the negative bias which is often directed at the emergency services & NHS by some sections of the mainstream media.
One of the reasons we started 'Emergency Services News' back in 2018 was because we became tired of reading badly informed stories about the emergency services & NHS which seemed only ever to highlight negative aspects of the job.
We want to be the unheard voice of the remarkable men and women who serve in the emergency services, NHS and armed forces. And with around 500k page views each month, we are getting there!
As income from ads, the mainstay source of income for most publishers, continues to decline; we need the help of you, our readers.
You can support emergency services news from as little as £1. It only takes a minute. Every contribution, however big or small, is vital for our future.
Please help us to continue to highlight the life-saving work of the emergency services, NHS and armed forces by becoming a supporter.
Love this site. Much justice sadness happiness and other kinds of feelings. Much respect for our police who’s convictions are often negated by weak judges. Keep going. Your doing a great job. Same for all emergency services.
12 MONTHS, WILL PROBABLY SERVE LESS THAN 6 AND HAS A COMPENSATION ORDER BEEN MADE OR DO THE VICTIMS HAVE TO CLAIM OFF THEIR INSURANCE OR PAY IT THEMSELVES?