CCP Virus Patient Jailed for 12 Months After Coughing in Nurses’ Faces

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By NTD Newsroom
April 11, 2020UK
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CCP Virus Patient Jailed for 12 Months After Coughing in Nurses’ Faces
Royal Stoke University Hospital where a man coughed on two nurses, in the United Kingdom on April 6, 2020. (Jonathan Hutchins/geograph.org/[CC BY-SA-2.0 (ept.ms/2utDIe9)])

A 30-year-old man suspected of carrying the CCP virus has been sentenced to one year in prison for coughing in the faces of two nurses in the United Kingdom.

Lance King was admitted to the emergency department of the Royal Stoke University Hospital in England on Monday shortly after 1:30 p.m. with symptoms of COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP virus, commonly known as the novel coronavirus.

“There are occasions when unusual circumstances, under extreme circumstances, call for an extraordinary approach, and this is one of those occasions,” District Judge Kevin Grego said, according to Metro.

“Whatever your circumstances were, whether you felt paranoid, or miserable, or fed up, you should not have been out, in any event, to behave in the way you did toward emergency workers,” Grego added.

Shortly after King, who has no fixed address, was admitted to the hospital, he started showing erratic behavior, allegedly walking up to one nurse, wheezing in her face, and spitting into the face of another. King reportedly also urinated on the floor in his cubicle and scribbled on himself with a pen.

“In a time of crisis, like these people, like you need to understand that emergency workers will be protected and those who behave in this way toward emergency workers can expect the full weight of punishment on their shoulders,” Grego said.

North Staffordshire justice center
North Staffordshire Justice Center where King was sentenced by District Judge Kevin Grego, in the United Kingdom on April 8, 2020. (Rept0n1x/Newcastle-under-Lyme/[CC BY 2.0 (ept.ms/2haHp2Y)])
“Coughing on nurses who are working to save people’s lives is totally unacceptable,” Assistant Chief Constable Simon Tweats said in a police statement.

“The message remains clear: stay at home and follow the guidelines,” Tweats added. “We don’t want to have to take action but we will do so if required. Particularly against a small minority who repeatedly choose to put other lives at risk.”