Call handler pretended to be paramedic before raping woman
A call handler pretended to be a paramedic before raping a woman and sexually assaulting two more he met on a dating app, a court heard.
Jamie Kadolski, 24, of Norwich, previously worked as a call handler for the East of England Ambulance Service but had falsely claimed to the women that he was a paramedic.
He used stickers on his work ID card to hide his more junior role, a trial at Norwich Crown Court was told.
Kadolski was found guilty of three counts of rape and six further sexual offences.
Judge Anthony Bate, sentencing at the same court on Thursday, said the offending happened between August 2022 and September 2023.
He said that Kadolski met all three women 'through the Tinder online dating app'.
He said the defendant 'projected a misleading impression of your healthcare professional status through your misuse of uniforms, health service identity cards and related papers'.
'Each of them expected to be safe in your company and able to enjoy a healthy and fulfilling future relationship based on mutual respect,' he said.
Describing Kadolski as a 'dangerous offender', the judge sentenced him to 12 years in prison with an extended licence period of three years.
The judge also imposed an indefinite sexual harm prevention order, and ordered that Kadolski's seized devices, uniforms and identity cards remain confiscated.
The woman who was raped by Kadolski said she felt 'humiliated and ashamed'.
She said that 'almost every night' she had 'nightmares that he's come into my house', before wiping tears from her eyes as she stood in the witness box.
The woman said that seeing an 'ambulance or paramedics in the street fills me with dread', although she had since learned that Kadolski was not a paramedic.
A second woman said she was a 'shadow of who I once was' and that she had tried to take her own life.
His third victim told the court that the 'thought of what happened still haunts me today'.
Michael Cohen, for the defendant, said that 'others are representing Mr Kadolski in an application for permission to appeal' against the convictions.
He said Kadolski had no previous convictions or cautions that were relevant to the case.
The defendant showed no emotion as he was led to the cells.
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