Friday, May 22, 2009

** Michigan man strikes plea deal in driving death of EMT

** UK sentenced after luring medics to his apartment to kill them

UNITED STATES NEWS

** Sentencing has been set for July 1 for a Michigan man who pleaded no contest in the driving death of a Jackson County EMT. The Ann Arbor News (Art Aisner/May 21) said Charles Bacon, 47, registered his plea Wednesday in relation to the January 26, 2008 death of Cheryl Kiefer, 23. According to the newspaper, Bacon ran Kiefer down as she attended an MVA patient on the I-94. Bacon, who could have faced up to 15 years in jail, took a plea deal instead. He is expected to receive one year in jail followed by probation. Kiefer, who had worked EMS for about a year at the time of her death, had intended to become both a paramedic and a flight nurse.

UNITED KINGDOM NEWS

** An Oldham man has been sentenced to 27 months in custody, after he lured paramedics to his apartment so he could kill them. That is the word from Fleetwood Today (May 21) which said Leonard Hilton first hailed EMS to his home by means of a bogus 999 call. Explaining he had cut his wrists, Hilton later said he heard voices indicating he should stab the paramedics. Once set upon, the practitioners barricaded themselves in a bedroom, while Hilton screamed at them and plunged a knife into the door. Police arrived a short time after. Along with the jail term, Hilton has also been given an indeterminate public protection sentence.