Paramedic imposter who lied to impress dates convicted of sex attacks

A WALTER Mitty medic who pretended he was a paramedic to impress women he met on Tinder before raping and sexually assaulting them has been convicted of a string of offences.

‘Predatory’ Jamie Kadolski, 24, was an ambulance call handler and first responder who wore his NHS uniform on his dating app profile photo.

But he concealed his junior role when he met women by placing stickers over personal information on his ID card and instead claimed he saved lives on ambulances.

His offending came to light in November 2023 when a woman contacted police to make an allegation against him.

But he continued to commit offences against other women while on bail and was arrested again in March and April this year.

Attacks were carried out at a victim’s flat, in his own home in Norwich, Norfolk, and in his car after driving a victim to an isolated spot at Hempton, near Fakenham.

In a police interview, the fantasist – who said he was looking for ‘short-term fun’ on Tinder - told officers he wouldn’t have been capable of pinning someone down as he had suffered sexual abuse as a child.

He also denied arguing with one of his accusers. He told police he remembered her crying on one occasion and coldly added: ‘I’m not the best with empathy or sympathy.’

The woman who was attacked at Hempton told the court how she met the defendant on Tinder in 2022 and admitted she wanted to ‘get to know each other and see if the chemistry was there’.

Some messages were ‘a bit flirty’ and sex was a possibility but she described how he undressed her and grabbed her breasts ‘aggressively’, as well as pulling her hair when they had sex in the back of his car.

She said she was unable to tell him to stop because she had ‘frozen’ with fear and felt ‘very vulnerable’.

‘I just wanted it to stop and to end,’ she said.

Another victim complained Kadolski had ‘pulled her hair aggressively’ to keep her head in his lap while unzipping her shorts and sexually assaulting her at his flat.

‘I had to push his hand away, get up and do up my shorts,’ she said.

‘There was no consent in the first place. At no point did I say that what was happening to me was okay with me.’

Kadolski, who also worked as a healthcare assistant at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, was convicted of three rapes, two counts of assault by penetration and a sexual assault against the first victim.

He was cleared of attempting to suffocate her by putting a dog collar on her so tight that she lost consciousness and another count of rape.

The jury at Norwich Crown Court also convicted him of sexual assault and assault by penetration against two other victims.

Kadolski, whose offences covered an 18-month period, was cleared of raping a fourth woman as the trial ended on Friday.

Judge Anthony Bate adjourned sentencing until February for a pre-sentence report to be produced specifically on the ‘danger’ he ‘poses to young women in particular’.

A psychological risk assessment will also be carried out.

The judge said: ‘He seemed to be displaying traits of a personality disorder which I think needs to be carefully considered by an appropriate clinician.’

Kadolski, who resigned from the East of England Ambulance Service (EEAS), had faced further charges of raping a woman while she slept and false imprisonment of a woman who said she was locked in a bathroom.

But during the trial the court was told he had no case to answer on the charges and the jury was ordered to return not guilty verdicts.

Detective Constable Claire Floyd, of Norfolk Police, branded Kadolski ‘predatory and remorseless’ as she paid tribute to the courage of his victims afterwards.

She said: ‘I hope that today’s verdict will bring a small measure of comfort that justice has been delivered.

‘I also hope that it encourages anyone else who is a victim of this type of offence to have the confidence to come forward.

‘I don’t underestimate the strength it takes to report sexual offences – but today’s verdict shows we do take these reports seriously and that we are dedicated to bringing predatory and remorseless offenders like Kadolski before the courts.’

EEAS paramedic Andrew Wheeler, 46, was jailed for 21 years in 2021 after being convicted of sex attacks against two women and a girl.

One victim, a nurse, was raped at an ambulance station and assaulted a year later when he treated her as a patient in an ambulance.

Another victim was an alcoholic who was told by Wheeler that nobody would believe her because of her drink problem.

The girl was aged nine or ten when she was touched on the inner thigh by the defendant, who was also involved with St John Ambulance.

Last year the troubled organisation was accused of ‘institutional racism’ and staff branded ‘xenophobic’, with colleagues complaining that offensive behaviour was often dismissed as ‘banter’.