Headbutt attack sent paramedic ‘flying across the room’

A HORROR headbutt attack on a parmedic sent ‘flying across the room’ by a thug has featured on a new BBC show.

Critical Incidents highlights attacks on emergency services workers and the episode which aired on BBC1 on Monday night (January 13) focused on Neil Vann.

The paramedic of 30 years was attacked while he attended a callout at an address in Tryan Road in Nuneaton in 2017.

David Neal, aged 33, of Vale View, headbutted the West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS) worker so hard that he sent him flying five metres across the room.

The paramedic relived the fateful night on the TV show, saying: “There was no warning or not hint, he just headbutted me.”

The attack knocked the paramedic

VOLCANIC activity did not kill off dinosaurs, scientists have said, based on an analysis of marine fossils.

Instead, they believe these massive eruptions may have helped shaped life on Earth after a mass extinction event wiped out 75% of the planet’s species around 66 million years ago. unconscious and, when he finally came around, he was dazed and confused.

His colleague Vanessa radioed for help - alerting Neil’s paramedic wife Jan to the attack.

She heard about the awful assault over the WMAS radio as she was also on duty.

“It was something no-one should ever have to hear about their husband,” she said.

As a result of the attack, Mr Vann contemplated quitting his job of 30 years - but his wife persuaded him not to.

“I wondered whether it was time for me to give up,” he said.

“I remember putting my uniform back on, I was a bit sweaty, it was difficult.

“But I said to myself, ‘this is what you do,’ this is what I love, I can hand on heart say that I love my job, I have been doing it for 30 years and I am not stopping this

The new research, in which experts from the University College London (UCL) and University of Southampton were involved, attempts to address the ongoing debate as to whether the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) extinction was caused by a series of volcanic eruptions, or an asteroid collision, or both.

Geological records because of one idiot.”

Neal was sentenced to a six month prison sentence for assaulting Mr Vann and ordered to pay £600 compensation.

He also admitted a string of other offences.

At the time Anthony Marsh, WMAS trust chief executive, said: “This was an abhorrent attack on a member of staff who was simply trying to help a patient in their hour of need.

“It is never ok to assault our staff. I am delighted that on this occasion, the magistrate has shown that such action will not be tolerated and handed down a custodial sentence.

“This is just the sort of action we need on a far more regular basis by the courts so that people understand that attacking our staff is not acceptable. Providing protection for our staff is a must and this type of sentence helps to do that.” indicate that the environmental impacts from the massive volcanic eruptions in India, which caused a huge rock formation known as the Deccan Traps, happened 200,000 years before the K-Pg event.

According to the scientists, this indicates volcanic activity did not directly contribute to the death of dinosaurs.

Instead, they are standing by the original argument that the K-Pg event was caused by a 10kmlong asteroid that crashed on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. The researchers examined tiny marine fossils to find out more about the ocean temperatures and carbon cycle changes at the time of the extinction.