{"id":428781,"date":"2026-05-06T19:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/428781\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T19:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:48:09","slug":"sex-assault-nhs-worker-has-sentence-extended-by-three-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/428781\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex assault NHS worker has sentence extended by three years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A healthcare support worker who sexually assaulted two patients in hospital during fake examinations has had his jail sentence increased by a third.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ieuan Crump, 28, from Gilfach near Bargoed, Caerphilly county, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx25e08xvxjo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">jailed for nine years in  December<\/a>, but the case was sent to the Attorney General for the sentence to be reconsidered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Court of Appeal on Wednesday was asked to consider the serious breach of trust involved and aggravating features.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It ruled that the sentence should increase to 12 years as the original term &#8220;did not reflect the gravity of the offending&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Crump was working as healthcare support worker when he assaulted the patients at the Grange Hospital, Cwmbran, in August  2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A healthcare support worker who sexually assaulted two patients in hospital during fake examinations has had his jail&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":["post-428781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}