Double amputee tells how he was wheeled out of hospital and mugged by 'good ...

Double amputee tells how he was wheeled out of hospital and mugged by 'good ...
Double amputee tells how he was wheeled out of hospital and mugged by 'good ...

A double amputee in a wheelchair has spoken of the terrifying moment he was mugged by a robber posing as a Good Samaritan in hospital.

Father-of-five George McEwan-Jones, 67, a retired taxi driver, said the sickening attack happened after he decided to get a drink and some fresh air after only emerging from a six-weeks coma earlier that day.

The moments leading up to the incident were captured on CCTV, as crook Liam Dallimore pretended to be doing a good deed before swiping Mr McEwan-Jones' bank card, and ramming his wheelchair into a wall.

'The nurses said I shouldn't really go out on my own, but I said I felt fine and never suspected I'd have any reason to worry in a hospital,' Mr McEwan-Jones told MailOnline.

'I noticed this guy standing behind me when I bought a can of coke in the WH Smiths in the hospital, and he must have seen my PIN number. As I left the shop, he just grabbed the wheelchair and pushed me outside then down a slope at speed, taking my bank card.

George McEwan-Jones (pictured), 67, a retired taxi driver, said he was sickened by the attack

Dallimore (pictured), from Glasgow, was jailed for 45 months after he admitted robbery and fraud

George McEwan-Jones (left), 67, a retired taxi driver, said he was sickened by the attack for which Liam Dallimore (right) was jailed for 45 months for robbery and fraud

'A doctor who was watching from an upstairs window realised what was happening, but by the time he made it downstairs, it was too late and my stump was just pumping out blood because of the anti-coagulants I was on.

'How could anyone do this to another human being, let alone someone who is in such a vulnerable position?'

In the video, visitors and medical staff walked past, mistakenly assuming he was a kind patient helping a disabled man get some fresh air whilst recovering from a major operation in Manchester.

Mr McEwan-Jones, who had an operation to remove his right leg, told of his ordeal

Mr McEwan-Jones, who had an operation to remove his right leg, told of his ordeal

But moments later, dressed only in a surgical gown having just come round from a six week coma and learning he'd lost a leg - was robbed of his bank card by Dallimore, who'd posed as a patient on crutches.

In the moments before the callous attack, the father-of-one had accosted Mr McEwan-Jones outside a WH Smith store at Manchester Royal Infirmary before wheeling him into to the car park.

He then snatched the debit card out of his hand and pushed Mr McEwan-Jones' wheelchair down a slope into a wall forcing the victim to use his stump to prevent his face from hitting the brickwork.

As doctors treated the victim's wounds, Dallimore, 29, used the stolen debit card to try and withdraw £270 cash from an ATM, before splashing out on cigarettes and getting cashback at a Morrisons supermarket.

In a statement to court, Mr McEwan-Jones, who lost his right leg to deep vein thrombosis (DVT) just four years after his left leg had to be amputated, said: 'I think it's absolutely diabolical that someone could do this to a man with no legs.

Visitors and medical staff walked past Dallimore, mistakenly assuming he was a kind patient helping a disabled man - who had only just learned he'd lost a leg - get some fresh air

Visitors and medical staff walked past Dallimore, mistakenly assuming he was a kind patient helping a disabled man - who had only just learned he'd lost a leg - get some fresh air

'How am I supposed to defend myself? This person must not have a heart to do such a diabolical thing.

'I had just come out of a coma when I was robbed in the Manchester Royal Infirmary. It was the first day I had been awake.

'I wanted to get a drink because I was so thirsty. Then this man has taken hold of my wheelchair and rammed me into a wall.

'When the robber pushed my wheelchair into the wall, I have had to use the stump of my left leg to stop the impact. The wound I suffered was about the size of a 50 pence piece and did not stop bleeding.

'The whole incident affects me to this day. I feel very worried going out to the shops and I have to take medication to help me sleep.'

Yesterday, CCTV images of the raid emerged as Glaswegian Dallimore, of no fixed abode, was jailed for three years and nine months after he admitted robbery and fraud by false representation.

He refused to leave his cell and was dealt with in his absence.

Manchester Crown Court heard the robbery at 1.30pm on July 14 this year occurred six weeks after Mr McEwan-Jones, from Salford, had been admitted to hospital

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