AN AMBULANCE TOOK TWENTY MINUTES TO REACH A MAN WH

AN AMBULANCE TOOK TWENTY MINUTES TO REACH A MAN WHO WAS

BLEEDING TO DEATH IN HIS GARDEN, A NEIGHBOUR CLAIMED TODAY (FRI)

RETIRED ELECTRICIAN PETER DOOGAN, 62, SLICED INTO HIS THIGH

WITH A CIRCULAR SAW AS HE TRIED TO FIT A DOOR AT HIS HOME IN KITSON

ROAD, CAMBERWELL.

NEIGHBOUR DAVID ROSE TOLD SOUTHWARK CORONER SIONTAGUE

LEVINE HOW HE HEARD HIS FRIEND’S CRIES AND RUSHED TO DIAL 999.

‘THEY TOLD ME TO HANG ON A MINUTE,’ HE SAID.

‘WHEN I GOT

THROUGH I SAID ”THERE’S A MAN HERE WHO HAS CUT HIS LEG WITH A POWER

SAW AND IS BLEEDING TO DEATH.

”

‘THEY CAME IN TWENTY MINUTES’.

WHILE MR ROSE FETCHED A SURGEON, ANOTHER NEIGHBOUR BATTLED

DESPERATELY TO TIGHTEN A ROPE AROUND MR DOOGAN’S LEG TO STOP IT

BLEEDING, THE COURT HEARD.

ASKED SIR MONTAGUE IF HE HAD ASKED THE AMBULANCEMEN WHY THEY

TOOK SO LONG, MR ROSE REPLIED ‘NO’.

CORONER’S OFFICER PC EDWARD SIMPSON TOLD THE INQUEST THIS WAS

THE FIRST MENTION OF A DELAY BY THE AMBULANCE.

THE INQUEST WAS THEN ADJOURNED TO A DATE TO BE FIXED.

‘IN VIEW OF THE INFERENCE MADE CONCERNING THE TIME THE

AMBULANCE TOOK IT WOULD ONLY BE FAIR AND FITTING TO HAVE A RECORD OF

THE TIME AND FOR THE AMBULANCEMAN WHO WAS INVOLVED IN THIS CASE TO

GIVE EVIDENCE.

‘

ENDS