Caution for paramedic who said woman was ‘too fat to wipe her arse’

A disability benefits assessor who said a claimant was ‘too f***ing fat’ to wipe her bottom has been let off with a five-year caution. Alan Barham was caught making the remarks about a disability benefit applicant on Channel 4’s ‘Dispatches: The Great Benefits Row’, broadcast on 11 April 2016. Barham told an undercover trainee assessor, that he filled in Personal Independence Payment (PIP) forms before ever assessing the applicant. The former paramedic was working at the Northampton offices of Capita…