Drone forced police to halt chopper hunt
£250k bill for 55st bed blocker still in hospital despite being fit to leave
ADVANCED Phantom 4 A DRONE flyer who risked causing a “catastrophic” helicopter crash similar to the Leicester City tragedy has been fined by a court.
Sergej Miaun, 37, operated a drone which interfered with a police helicopter last December.
He disrupted a search for a missing woman in Guyhirn, Cambs, as he flew his £900 Phantom 4 device from half a mile away.
Police halted the night hunt after a chopper had to take evasive action and tailed the drone to Miaun’s home near Peterborough.
Police pilot Capt Lee Holmes told the trial: “You see in Leicester if it goes wrong it’s catastrophic.”
Peterborough magistrates convicted Miaun of an unsafe drone flight, which he denied, and fined him £184, with £250 costs. INSIDER REVEALS THE CONCERNS OF DISGRUNTLED HOSPITAL STAFF Matthew’s planned move fell through ONE of Britain’s fattest men is still blocking four hospital beds weeks after the Mirror revealed he was medically fit to be discharged.
Matthew Crawford, who is 55 stone, has cost the NHS an estimated £250,000 during his six-month stay.
Insiders say he got a discharge letter at least three months ago and that about £120,000 of the bill has come since then.
He cannot be moved out until an appropriate social care place is found. When we revealed the predicament last month the hospital said a move was imminent.
A source has now said the unit where he was due to go pulled the plug after learning Matthew has a conviction for attacking nurses. The insider added: “It beggars belief that he’s still on the same ward despite the situation exposed in the national media.
“The word is that something else has been lined up and he will be on the move, but there are genuine fears he will still be here at Christmas.
“The last unit he was due to go to cancelled the place after learning about his past. They wanted nothing to do with him.”
Matthew, 33, was convicted earlier this year of assaulting four nurses at a care home. He was ordered to pay compensation.
He has been on a ward at King’s Mill Hospital in Sutton-inAshfield, Notts, since May.
Matthew has a four-bed bay to himself to fit in the equipment needed to move him around.
The NHS cost, including £7,000 a week for a rented reinforced being bed, has risen by roughly £60,000 since we exposed the scandal six weeks ago.
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust said: “It is disappointing when despite all our efforts we still have How much the NHS pays in rent per week for the reinforced bed he needs BIG NEWS Mirror story last month on the NHS headache patients in hospital who we recognise should not be here. “It means there are less beds available for those needing hospital treatment. “We will continue to work with our partners to try to find a better solution.”
It has been claimed Matthew has frequently ordered pizza and takeaways to eat on the ward, but he has insisted it is not true. His mum Linda Belshaw, of Newark, Notts, said last month he is not bed-blocking deliberately. The problem costs the cashstrapped NHS millions of pounds every year as operations are postponed or axed and emergency departments are over-run.
It beggars belief he’s still on the ward. There are fears he’ll still be here at Christmas