A former paramedic accused of trying to sell medical equipment on internet auction site eBay told a hearing he did it to pay a child support debt.
Thomas Wildman, 34, offered to sell life-saving equipment including a defibrillator and oxygen masks.
He has been struck off his professional register and will not be able to reapply to join again for five years.

A company which manufactures gas cylinders first spotted one of its oxygen cylinders for sale on eBay in January and alerted the police.

Bids had reached £466.86 for the defibrillator and £102 for a pulse oximeter.
“I did not know which way to turn,” he said in a statement to the Health Professions Council hearing in London.

n a police interview he admitted taking the cyclinder and other equipment from the stores at Lichfield ambulance station.

A defibrillator and pulse oximeter had been taken from a community paramedic officer’s car in Burton.

Mr Wildman said the other equipment he tried to auction was excess kit from when he worked for the West Midlands Ambulance Service.

No equipment was handed over to any of the internet bidders.

“I couldn’t do it,” he said. “I sent an e-mail to say the item was no longer auctionable.”

Posted: 10|14|05 at 5:20 pm. Filed under: UK News.