This is the callous moment a double amputee was robbed by a fake good Samaritan at a busy hospital hours after waking up from a coma to learn he had lost his leg.
George McEwan-Jones, 67, was targeted by Liam Dallimore, 29, for his bank card while he was in a wheelchair and surgical gown.
Video captured at about 1.30pm on July 14 showed Dallimore wheeling the elderly double amputee outside a hospital before robbing him and shoving the wheelchair into a wall, Manchester Evening News reports.
Visitors and medical staff had walked past Dallimore and mistakenly assumed he was a kind patient helping a disabled man in Manchester.
George, who was only dressed in a surgical gown, had only just learned a few hours prior that he had lost a leg after a six-week coma.
He was robbed of his bank card by Dallimore, who pretend to be patient using crutches.
In the moments before the horrifying attack, the dad-of-one had accosted George outside a WH Smith store at Manchester Royal Infirmary before wheeling him into the car park.
Dallimore then grabbed George's debit card out of his hand and pushed his wheelchair down a slope into a wall.
George had to use his stump to stop his head from hitting the brick wall.
While George's injuries were being treated, Dallimore used the stolen bank card to try and withdraw.
As doctors treated the victim's wounds, Dallimore used the stolen debit card to try to withdraw £270 cash from an ATM, before buying cigarettes and getting cash back at a Morrisons supermarket.
In a statement, George, who lost his right leg to deep vein thrombosis (DVT) just four years after his left leg had to be amputated, said: "I think it's absolutely diabolical that someone could do this to a man with no legs.
"How am I supposed to defend myself? This person must not have a heart to do such a diabolical thing.
"I wanted to get a drink because I was so thirsty. Then this man took hold of my wheelchair and rammed me into a wall."
Dallimore, of no fixed abode, was jailed for three years and nine months after he admitted robbery and fraud by false representation.
He refused to leave his cell and was dealt with in his absence.
Dallimore, originally from Glasgow, was expelled from school when he was just five.
The court heard he has 77 offences on his record, including an assault on his own mother in which he spat in her face and said he hoped she would get coronavirus.
Dallimore, also had other convictions for battery, robbery and having a bladed article and had an addiction to heroin.
His defence lawyer, Daniel Calder, said the robbery was "cruel and abhorrent" but added: "His attendance at the hospital was to ask for treatment in relation to abscesses to his legs.
"He would wish the court to accept that the offence was opportunistic rather than planned."
Sentencing, Mr Recorder Michael Maher said: "A doctor initially thought the defendant was acting in a selfless manner.
"How wrong he was. This defendant in fact acted with utter contempt for Mr McEwan-Jones, casting him aside as though he was a piece of rubbish.
"He was completely helpless."
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