Paramedics have branded a Spalding teenager “disgusting” after he stole from an ambulance while they treated an elderly woman.

The two-man crew was forced to pin Levi Matthews to the ground – and wait for him to be sprayed with CS gas by police – when he turned violent after being caught inside the vehicle.

Matthews (18) was told he was “very lucky” not to be going to prison as he was sentenced at Spalding Magistrates’ Court.

He was given a 12-month community order with a supervision requirement and told he will be under curfew from 7pm-7am for four months.

Matthews pleaded guilty to the theft of a bottle of Entonox pain relief gas, criminal damage to an ambulance and resisting a police constable at a hearing in January.

via Spalding Guardian.