Fined £120...neighbour from hell who left vile message for 999 crew
A SHAMEFUL neighbour who left a despicable note on an ambulance parked outside her house was fined just £120 yesterday.
Kirsty Sharman, 26, yelled “move your ******* van” at a paramedic after writing that she did not “give a **** if the whole street had collapsed”.
Magistrates heard Sharman took issue after the ambulance crew parked in her bay while attending a 999 call from neighbour Kirsty Heath, who was suffering breathing difficulties.
Liz Rider, prosecuting, told the court: “A neighbour saw the note deposited by the defendant and took it from the windscreen and put it through the defendant’s address.”
It read: “If this van is for anyone but No 14 then you have no right to be parked here. I couldn’t give a **** if the whole street collapsed now move your van from outside my house.”
Ms Rider said the neighbour heard a bang and shouting from the street.
Mother-of-two Sharman was heard to tell a male paramedic who had gone to get a chair for Mrs Heath: “Move your ******** van.”
Ms Rider added: “The paramedic had been put in the picture that there were some difficulties and as he put Mrs Heath into the back of the ambulance, there was further abuse.”
Sharman was arrested at home later on Sunday after West Midlands Ambulance Service paramedic mentor Katie Tudor sent a picture of the vile note to police Twitter accounts.
Shocked
Sharman admitted using threatening or abusive words or behaviour likely to cause harassment, distress or harm when she appeared at North Staffordshire Justice Centre in Newcastle-under-Lyme.
A second charge of the breach of a restraining order was dropped.
Sharman, of Tunstall, Stoke-onTrent, was also ordered to pay £135 prosecution costs and a £30 surcharge.
Chairman of the magistrates Christopher Rushton said: “This was an absolutely despicable offence aggravated by the fact that it was directed at an ambulance crew proving a public service to a sick person.
“That crew should not be subject to actions like this.”
Sharman was under a restraining order for an ongoing dispute with Mrs Heath and her husband Brian, the court was told.
Mrs Heath, a retired postal worker, is still in Royal Stoke Hospital where she is being treated for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Retired engineer Mr Heath blasted the sentence, saying he and his wife were at their “wit’s end”.
Mr Heath said: “I am shocked she has got off again. The police have done a wonderful job but we were let down by the courts.” After the hearing a relative of Sharman’s who did not wish to be named said they had wanted the court to lock her up.
“The woman is a menace,” said the family member. “She doesn’t drive nor even have a car. Really she needs help from someone.”
West Midlands Ambulance Service welcomed the sentence and said they hoped it would serve as a warning.
“Our staff will only block roads or park in front of drives if absolutely necessary in the interests of patient care,” said a spokesman.