An ambulance worker has spoken out about how he was 'strangled like an action figure’ by a drunk patient who “suddenly switched”.
Joel Blacker, 27, was working as an emergency crew member for the London Ambulance Service when he and his colleague answered a 999 call to a man who had collapsed on a street in Islington, north London.
When they arrived, the patient, 28-year-old Stuart Gellatly, of Enfield, wasn’t able to stand. But Joel said somehow he suddenly flipped and became aggressive, launching his colleague to the front of the ambulance before wrapping both hands around Joel's neck.
Joel, from east London, said the man held him with such force he feared he wouldn’t be able to get out of his grasp. He suffered a broken bone in his neck
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