By Press Association 2021
Andrew Wheeler
A paramedic has been found guilty of raping a patient in her own home and of sexually assaulting another female patient in the back of his ambulance.
Andrew Wheeler, 46, of Mill Green, Warboys in Cambridgeshire, was on duty in a rapid response car when he was called to help a woman who had collapsed at her friend’s house in 2018.
He drove the woman, who was drunk, to her own house where he raped and sexually assaulted her.
Jurors at Peterborough Crown Court convicted him of both offences after three days of deliberation.
Paramedic Andrew Wheeler was found guilty at Peterborough Crown Court of six sexual offences (Joe Giddens/ PA)
Paramedic Andrew Wheeler, 46, has been convicted of string of sexual offences
Wheeler, from Cambridgeshire, was found guilty of raping a patient in her own home and of sexually assaulting another female patient in back of his ambulance
Wheeler was cleared of seven additional sexual offences and the jury were also unable to reach a decision on another five counts of rape against a non-patient