The man will spend in prison 3 months after he was caught stealing 3 surgical masks from the hospital during a pandemic coronavirus.
Police officers arrived at the hospital King’s College Hospital in London at about 11:20 after the incident of theft, said in a statement, the police of London.
Leran Hussain (34) was detained by security at the hospital after the theft of the personal protection. When the police arrived, he was arrested on suspicion of theft and detained for violation of a court order. The man was found guilty in court, Croydon Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday. He will go to jail for 3 months.
The Metropolitan Police have released this picture of Lerun Hussain — the man jailed for 12 weeks yesterday for stealing three face masks from King’s College Hospital in South London. pic.twitter.com/6XtFx5ZnlY
— Daniel Sandford (@BBCDanielS) April 8, 2020
The theft occurred amid concern over the lack of personal protective equipment such as masks, which are necessary for the protection of hospital staff while they are dealing with a growing number of patients with coronavirus.
However, the difficulty of obtaining such items as masks and hand sanitizer for your hands during a pandemic coronavirus, it seems, led to a rise in thefts related to these items.
Last week a man was arrested after stealing belongings, including face masks and antibacterial hand sanitizers from the ambulance that was near another hospital in London. Mark manly (35 years) will go to jail for 6 months after he admitted that he stole personal protective equipment from the ambulance near the hospital, Guy’s Hospital and attacked the guard.
And last month, the nurses from the hospital Teddington Memorial Hospital in London chased the suspects who stole antibacterial hand sanitizer while on the scene police arrived. Nurse Elin Carney-Jones wrote on Twitter that the suspects opened the mechanism for dispensing the disinfectant for hands and stole its contents.
