Woman, 68, tried to grope paramedic when he helped her after a fall

She has been ordered to sign the sex offender register.

A pensioner has been ordered to sign the sex offender register after the tried to grab a paramedic’s genitals as he treated her following a fall at her home.

Christine Roles, 68, touched the emergency worker’s knee as he checked her blood pressure before moving her hand up to his crotch area and saying: ‘How big is it?’

The paramedic, who cannot be named, pushed the pensioner’s hand away but she then tried to stroke his chest before telling him to ‘f**k off’.

Roles was later arrested at her sheltered accommodation in Flixton, Greater Manchester.

Roles, who had been deemed unfit to formally plead in court due to a memory loss problem, denied sexual assault.

She will have to sign the list alongside paedophiles and rapists for an interim period pending further psychiatric tests.

The incident took place on April 24 last year after Roles called 999 after falling over.

She had a history of heavy drinking and making hoax calls – and was subject to a two-year criminal behaviour order prohibiting her from calling 999 unless it was a genuine emergency.

The paramedic, who was joined by a colleague, told of the incident: ‘I placed her arm down with the palm up onto my leg and she turned it round onto my knee and I said it is inappropriate to touch me like that. I said “what are you doing?” And she said “I was just seeing if I could make you jump”.

‘I moved my hand away and pushed the hand off my knew and we had a discussion about how it is inappropriate to touch people in that manner, especially when you are there to help.

‘Then she tried to grab hold of my crotch and asked “how big it was” she was still sat next to me. She just put her hand across she must have got half way up my thigh, I pushed her hand away. I had to physically remove her off myself.

‘It was towards my groin area I think the hand was heading towards my testicles, she probably would have gripped onto my testicles. I thought she was talking about the size of my penis.’

He added: ‘I stood up and moved to the doorway and said to my colleagues “we are not staying here anymore”. As we were leaving she then began to tell us to f**k off and get out, she did begin to stroke my chest again.

‘We went outside to the ambulance. I didn’t deem there was an emergency reason to phone an ambulance that day, there was no medical findings and there was no sign of injury.’

In a police interview, Roles said: ‘I made a genuine call to the emergency services as I fell over at my home address, I was in a great deal of pain.

‘My recollection is vague, as the man was checking my blood pressure I put my hand to his knee to steady myself. I did not attempt to grab his groin or make inappropriate comments.’

She was not called to give evidence.

Defence barrister Heather Crossthwaite said: ‘Since this incident she had been found unfit to stand trial and unfit to plea, there are concerns in relation to memory difficulties. She has since been seen by an expert.’