Paul Farrell Jailed

 

See here for essential background: https://hpanwo-hpwa.blogspot.com/2020/11/gosh-porter-admits-child-abuse.html.
Paul Farrell, the Great Ormond Street Hospital porter who admitted numerous counts of child sexual abuse has been jailed. He's been sentenced to eighteen years in prison, not as long as I would like. My only hope is that the other inmates will make those eighteen years feel like eighteen hundred. Even though he did not target patients as victims, Farrell abused his position to pretend to be friends with patients' parents to the point when they would let him act as their babysitter, leaving the children helpless in his clutches. This "grooming" of an entire family by an abuser is something I have personal experience of, see: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2009/01/eyes-of-centaur.html. I can only reiterate what I said in the background article above. Most hospital porters, in fact almost all of them apart from Farrell, are decent, honourable and noble professionals. Unfortunately the modern NHS does seem to attract many people with, shall we say, "alarming personalities", but statistics show that the vast majority of hospital crimes, and the most severe of them, are committed by civilians. Remember, Dr Harold Shipman and Beverley Allitt were not porters.
See here for more information: https://hpanwo-hpwa.blogspot.com/2015/05/killer-nurses.html.
And: https://hpanwo-hpwa.blogspot.com/2015/12/nhs-nurses-destroy-patients-doll.html.