from www.telegraph.co.uk- David Brammer, a paramedic accused of sexual activity in a Yorkshire hospital car park while on duty, has been found guilty of misconduct.

Brammer was struck off after being caught on CCTV with a woman’s head in his lap as he sat in the passenger seat of a car parked at Rotherham District General Hospital in June last year.

Brammer, who has since been sacked from the Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust, was found guilty of misconduct at a hearing at the Health Professions Council (HPC) in South London.

Derek Adrian-Harris, chair of the panel, said they also found Mr Brammer’s fitness to practise was impaired at the time and remains so.

Mr Adrian-Harris found that his conduct was both ”deliberate and reckless” and ”undermined public confidence in the profession”.

He said Brammer had failed to understand the ”profound unacceptability of his behaviour”.

Brammer had denied she had committed a sexual act on him, and said he was only trying to comfort a sobbing woman in the car after telling her their fling was over.

Brammer, wearing a blue jacket with a white shirt, blue tie and grey trousers, showed no reaction as the sanctions were read out.

Lance Dodgson, representing Brammer, had urged the panel not to strike his client off, saying the risk of him doing something similar again was “non-existent”.

“It was simply a mistaken act, a serious lapse of judgment and behaviour on Mr Brammer’s part,” he said.

Mr Dodgson said the 53-year-old had worked his way up from being a part-time cleaner with the ambulance service to being a “well-respected” paramedic over 12 years. He is now working as an agent for Frontline Paramedics.

Mr Dodgson said: “In essence, the job is his life, aside from his family. He has nothing else except that.”

He said his client’s marriage ran into problems “due to overworking” and he had suffered “numerous upsetting, emotional and heart-rending events” in his personal life, including the death of a six-week-old grandchild who stopped breathing at his home.

Brammer also helped his daughter overcome an addiction to heroin, Mr Dodgson said.

Brammer was now “throwing himself into his work” and was travelling the country with his job, spending long periods away from his wife, in an attempt “to help people”.

A spokeswoman for Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust said: “In June 2008 we conducted an investigation into claims that an employee had committed a criminal offence and breached the trust’s code of conduct.

“Appropriate disciplinary action was taken, resulting in the employee being dismissed from the trust and the case being referred to the HPC.”

from www.metro.co.uk – A paramedic who allegedly had oral sex in a hospital car park while on duty today insisted he was only trying to comfort a sobbing woman.

Married David Brammer was caught on CCTV with a woman’s head in his lap as he sat in the passenger seat of a car parked at Rotherham District General Hospital in June last year.

Mr Brammer, a paramedic with the Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust, denied misconduct at a fitness to practice hearing at the Health Professions Council (HPC) in south London and says no sexual activity took place during the incident.

But Ainsley Dale, a security officer at the hospital, said he believed he saw a woman in the driver’s seat of the car give Mr Brammer, who was wearing his uniform, oral sex before quickly returning to the ambulance station.

He said he saw the car on his rounds and thought it was suspicious that its two occupants were just talking there so focused a security camera on its two passengers shortly after 11pm on June 10.

“I saw the female passenger lean over to the man and it looked like she gave a performance of oral sex,” he said.

“I’m just saying that’s what it looked like on the camera.”

The incident was caught on a 14-minute video, which was played to the hearing behind closed doors to save Mr Brammer’s “embarrassment”.

Mr Dale added: “In the footage, her head does go to his lap. Her head does appear to go up and down.”

The panel also heard Mr Dale told investigators at the ambulance trust: “From the footage I assumed she was giving him a blow job, but from the angle of the camera I couldn’t prove that but that’s what it looked like to me.”

Under cross-examination by Lance Dodgson, representing Mr Brammer, Mr Dale said he could not tell whether the woman in the car was simply “angry and volatile” because Mr Brammer had just told her he did not want to see her any more.

He also said he did not see the woman “lashing out” at Mr Brammer and said he “could not tell” from the footage whether he put his hand on her shoulder to try to console her sobbing.

Mr Dodgson told the panel Mr Brammer accepts the woman “went to grab his groin but he stopped her with his hand”.

But Cliff Morrison, a security manager at the hospital, said the car park was brightly lit following a £0.75 million lighting upgrade and the footage which he reviewed the following day was clear.

“I saw a paramedic in the vehicle,” he said. “He appeared to me to be having oral sex being performed on him.

“At some stage you actually see her head going down in to the gentleman’s lap and him leaning back into the chair in the car.”

He added he saw Mr Brammer get out of the car to answer his radio and phone and then got back in to the car “to carry on for a few minutes more”.

Mr Morrison denied he was “jumping to conclusions” and also revealed it was not the first time a member of staff had used the hospital car park for public sex.

“You’d be surprised, it’s not the first time,” he said.

“It was outside in the A&E car park with a camera watching them, and members of the public have done it in our car park too.

“I’m painting a bad picture of Yorkshire people.”