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That poor helpless man who may have been saved. What is our world coming to with such heartless people, Joanna

A paramedic who was filmed standing with his hands in his pockets as a man lay dying of a heart attack in front of him outside an NHS hospital has avoided a jail sentence. Matthew Geary was given a suspended eight-month prison term and ordered to serve 240 hours of community service after a court heard that he failed to provide any help to Carl Cope – who he wrongly believed was drunk – despite seeing him stumble and fall to the ground. Judge John Warner condemned the paramedic’s actions as “callous and uncaring” and wholly at odds with his job.