Wembley woman 'groped paramedic' in back of ambulance, court hears

Deepa Meghani, of Wembley, is alleged to have touched his genitals through his trousers and asked him to “run away” with her.

The 33-year-old is said to have been heavily intoxicated and was found unconscious in the street during the pandemic in 2020, jurors heard.

She was found in Wembley and Meghani reportedly swore at the paramedics after a “pain test” of being pinched on the ear and shoulder.

The paramedic gave evidence at Harrow Crown Court on December 13 this year.

He said that Meghani was “black-out drunk” and began grabbing his thigh on the way to hospital.

While alone together in the back of the ambulance, he claims she insisted he was “beautiful and sexy” and asked him to “run away with her”.

The court heard she groped the paramedic when they arrived at Northwick Park Hospital in Harrow.

According to the paramedic, it was his ninth month working as a qualified paramedic and he was still on probation after first starting in October 2019.

He said: “I observed the patient seemed to be intoxicated, there was a strong smell of alcohol on her which led me to believe she was intoxicated.

“It was early hours of the morning, there were other people around, so we tried to get the patient into the ambulance, so we could administer care with privacy."

The woman was taken to go to Northwick Park Hospital (Image: Archive)

Describing the journey to the hospital, he said: “She swore a few times at my crew mate, she called him a d**khead on a few occasions.

“But we managed to set up that there was no immediately life-threatening conditions she was suffering from.

“The report that the patient had collapsed in the street and the fact she was intoxicated we could not leave her and we had to go to hospital.”

According to the alleged victim, he was trying to “bat off” the patient as she tried to reach for his face and at one point she gave what he described as a “bear hug”.

He continued: “At one point she reached over and placed her hand on my leg, on my thigh, the inside of my thigh - I kept telling her not to do that, I said ‘don’t touch my thigh’ and ‘get off me stop touching me,’ I said that more than once.”

The alleged victim also stated he objected “quite loudly” when she groped his genitals.

It is alleged that the paramedic was groped in the back of the ambulance (Image: PA)

When paramedics tried lifting her onto a hospital bed, the victim said he felt the patient’s hands on his back and “grabbing my buttock and squeezing it”.

He said he reported it to the police as soon as he got back to the ambulance station.

But David Armour, the paramedic who was driving the ambulance at the time of the incident, told jurors he thought the alleged victim acted inappropriately and unprofessionally by “allowing” Meghani to continue to touch him.

He said had never seen a paramedic not take action to move away from a drunk and disorderly patient - particularly given drunk sexual behaviour was a near-daily occurrence on the job.

Consequently, he described the alleged victim’s response as “blown out of proportion.”

Meghani denies one count of sexual assault.

The trial continues.