End of career for paramedic who got patient pregnant

A ‘horny’ paramedic who got a patient pregnant after she kissed his tattoo on the way to hospital has been thrown out of the profession.

Matthew Holden chatted the woman up in the back of the ambulance she had called after drinking and taking the legal high M-Kat.

They flirted and she rolled up his sleeve and kissed his tattoo.

He then invited himself to the woman’s home and they had sex.

She fell pregnant but later complained to the Health Professions Council.

Holden worked for Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust and had got her number after attending the non-emergency call.

He admitted to all the charges but told the HCPC panel that he felt pressurised by the woman’s constant messaging.

But the panel was shown text messages sent by Holden that contradicted his story.

Holden had told the tribunal: ‘In the car she had seen my tattoo on my arm and rolled up my shirt sleeve.

‘She leant over and kissed me, I pulled away and said you can’t do that, you’ll get me in trouble.’

He added: ‘When I went over I thought I would just go over have a chat and that would be it.

‘I have to be responsible, but I had been pressured by some of her messages.

‘I’d been through a difficult time with a divorce.’

Holden told the hearing he had immediately regretted sleeping with the patient and was sick on the way home.

But the texts produced were sent by Holden in the aftermath of the pair’s liaison.

He wrote: ‘What a tease you are I love it

‘Can’t wait for round 2.

‘You can tell I like your boobs.

‘You made me so horny this morning.’

Holden said they met again after they had sex, but that was only ‘when she told me she was pregnant.’

He added: ‘She had asked me to go around again, I knew it wasn’t right and said I had work.

Holden told the panel he regretted his actions, and it had stopped him doing what he loved.

He said: ‘I deeply regret that I let it happen.

‘Being a paramedic is everything to me, it’s all I ever wanted.’

Holden went to the woman’s home in the early hours to take her to hospital, then popped around when he had finished his shift.

The woman told the hearing the paramedic took advantage of her: ‘I was quite drunk, he was sober,’ she said.

‘He had seen vodka and coke in my glass, he saw me drinking and knew I’d had a couple of pints.’

She said she had not instigated the texting, and that Holden had invited himself over.

‘He put my number in his phone.

‘He then came round that morning as soon as he had finished.’

The panel found his fitness to practise was impaired and his name was removed from the medical register.
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