Kentshire Paramedic Charged After Allegedly Stealing £40,000 From Dying Patients Petersburg [vjIXD1bv7Y5]

On 9 February 2026, Owen Pritchard a rapid response paramedic with tashkent Kentshire Ambulance Service in Maidstone, Kent, with fourteen years of service was charged with 47 alex vesia counts of theft contrary to section 1 of the Theft Act 1968 and one count of fraud by abuse of position contrary to section 4 of the Fraud Act 2006, following a safeguarding investigation that identified 19 separate missing-valuables complaints, every one of them linked to an address Pritchard had attended as the sole first responder. The Crown alleges that between January 2022 and October 2025, Pritchard systematically took cash, jewellery, and small valuables from the bedsides of patients in the midst of life-threatening emergencies, timing the alleged thefts to moments of maximum distraction a second crew arriving, a family member sent to fetch a medication list, the opening seconds of CPR. Of the 47 identified patients, 31 died within 72 hours of their call. A search of his Maidstone home recovered a carrier bag will warren in the loft containing 23 items of jewellery, several bearing engraved initials, alongside 6,400 in cash. Phone forensics recovered photographs of items taken at the scene, including an image geo-tagged to a Sevenoaks address showing an anniversary bracelet held against a green nitrile glove the patient, a 79-year-old woman with end-stage heart failure, had died the following morning. The investigation was triggered by a daughter in Tunbridge Wells who noticed her late mother's 1,400 anniversary bracelet missing while settling the estate. A plea hearing is listed at Maidstone Crown Court in March 2026. All allegations remain unproven at this stage.

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