He had responded as a single-crew paramedic to an emergency call to help the woman and reassured two other paramedics, who arrived as a dual-crew, that he had things under control.
He then took the intoxicated woman from a friend s home back to her home before carrying out the attack. The woman told a friend, the incident was reported to police and Wheeler was arrested later that day.
Andrew Wheeler leaves court..
Crown Court, Peterborough
Monday 11 November 2019.
Picture by Terry Harris.
- Credit: Terry Harris
For this rape he received a 13-year sentence and for the sexual assault he received 10 years, to run concurrently to each other but consecutive to the others.
A paramedic who raped a patient in her own home and sexually assaulted another female patient in the back of his ambulance has been jailed for 21 years, with a judge branding him a manipulative sexual predator . Judge Matthew Lowe said that 46-year-old Andrew Wheeler had shown an arrogance and a belief that he was untouchable and protected, as he saw it, by his paramedic s uniform . Wheeler had shown not a shred of remorse , he said, adding: He s demonstrated that he s a manipulative sexual predator, willing to exploit for his own gratification the vulnerabilities of three separate (victims). Wheeler, who worked for the East of England Ambulance Service Trust, which covers Essex, was on duty as a single crew paramedic in a rapid response car when he was called to help a collapsed woman in Cambridgeshire in 2018.
Andrew Wheeler, 46, from Cambridgeshire, displayed an arrogance and a belief that he was untouchable and protected, as he saw it, by his paramedic s uniform, the judge said.