CELLEVISIONBy Lucy Thornton 1/05/2009
Patients' fury as prisoner gets his own TVHospital patients were left fuming over the"preferential" treatment of a violent prisoner.
Patients seethed as Craig Wassell, jailed indefinitely for beating up his granny, was given his own TV in his private room after complaining. They were told to watch telly in a communal lounge.
One patient on the renal ward said he was "shocked and disgusted" by the prisoner's "preferential" treatment.
The dad-of-four, 34, said: "I was told it was a ward that did not have any bedside televisions - only a communal TV room. This was horrible for the sicker patients who found it hard to get out of bed.
"Then this prisoner turned up with his two prison officers."Immediately he kicked off about not having a TV and started refusing treatment.
"Then the TV turned up - we couldn't believe it." Wassell, 30, who broke every bone in 71-year-old Audrey Downes' face while high on drugs, was admitted to Sheffield's Northern General Hospital for dialysis.
The NHS Trust said: "It was necessary that this patient was isolated in a single room." "Most of our other wards have personal bedside TVs and we sincerely apologise for any inconvenience."
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/05/01/cellevision-115875-21322554/
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