{"id":942151,"date":"2026-05-06T19:07:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/942151\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T19:07:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:07:15","slug":"sex-assault-nhs-worker-has-sentence-extended-by-three-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/942151\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex assault NHS worker has sentence extended by three years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A healthcare support worker who sexually assaulted two patients in hospital during fake examinations has had his jail sentence increased by a third.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ieuan Crump, 28, from Gilfach near Bargoed, Caerphilly county, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx25e08xvxjo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">jailed for nine years in  December<\/a>, but the case was sent to the Attorney General for the sentence to be reconsidered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Court of Appeal on Wednesday was asked to consider the serious breach of trust involved and aggravating features.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It ruled that the sentence should increase to 12 years as the original term &#8220;did not reflect the gravity of the offending&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Crump was working as healthcare support worker when he assaulted the patients at the Grange Hospital, Cwmbran, in August  2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A healthcare support worker who sexually assaulted two patients in hospital during fake examinations has had his jail&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":942152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[105,4348,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-942151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116529204221321849","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/942152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}