Man who pretended to be paramedic jailed for sexual offences
Jamie Kadolski, 24, of Norwich, previously worked as a call handler for the East of England Ambulance Service.
A man who pretended to be a paramedic has been jailed for 12 years for the rape of one woman and the sexual assault of two others who he met on an online dating app.
Jamie Kadolski, 24, of Norwich, previously worked as a call handler for the East of England Ambulance Service but had falsely claimed to the three women that he was a paramedic.
He used stickers on his work ID card to hide his more junior role, an earlier trial at Norwich Crown Court was told.
Kadolski was found guilty of three counts of rape and of six further sexual offences.
Judge Anthony Bate, sentencing at the same court on Thursday, said the offending happened between August 2022 and September 2023.
He said that Kadolski met all three women “through the Tinder online dating app”.
He said the defendant “projected a misleading impression of your healthcare professional status through your misuse of uniforms, health service identity cards and related papers”.
“Each of them expected to be safe in your company and able to enjoy a healthy and fulfilling future relationship based on mutual respect,” he said.
The judge described Kadolski as a “dangerous offender”.
He sentenced him to 12 years in prison with an extended licence period of three years.
The judge also imposed an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order, and ordered that Kadolski’s seized devices, uniforms and identity cards remain confiscated.
The three women read their victim impact statements at the sentencing hearing.
The woman who was raped by Kadolski said she felt “humiliated and ashamed”.
She said that “almost every night” she had “nightmares that he’s come into my house”, before wiping tears from her eyes as she stood in the witness box.
The woman said that seeing an “ambulance or paramedics in the street fills me with dread”, although she had since learned that Kadolski was not a paramedic.
A second woman said she was a “shadow of who I once was” and that she had tried to take her own life.
His third victim told the court that the “thought of what happened still haunts me today”.
Michael Cohen, for the defendant, said that “others are representing Mr Kadolski in an application for permission to appeal” against the convictions.
He said Kadolski had no previous convictions or cautions that were relevant to the case.
The defendant showed no emotion as he was led to the cells.
