Norwich hospital medic found guilty of sex offences

Jamie Kadolski was convicted of a total of nine sexual offences over an 18-month period.

During the trial at Norwich Crown Court he denied 13 charges made by four different women, who he met on Tinder. But a jury found the 24-year-old guilty of all but four of the charges.

The court had been told that the former ambulance call handler and first responder wore his NHS uniform on his Tinder profile and told the women he was a paramedic.Jamie Kadolski (Image: PA/Facebook)

He used stickers to hide his actual, more junior role, on his work ID card, in order to try to impress women.

Kadolski, who also worked as a health care assistant at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, committed some of the offences while on police bail.

He had initially been arrested in November 2023 when a woman came forward to make an allegation against him.

While that investigation continued, he was then arrested again in March and April this year for further offences involving more complainants.

Norwich Crown Court (Image: Peter Walsh, Newsquest)

In interviews, he told police he would not be able to pin someone down as he had been sexually abused as a child and denied he had argued with one of the complainants.

He said that he remembered her crying once and told police, “I’m not the best with empathy or sympathy.”

The trial heard that one of the incidents took place at the victim's flat and another at Kadolski's, while another took place in his car, after he drove the woman to an isolated spot at Hempton, near Fakenham.

Kadolski, of Ladysmith Road, Norwich, showed little emotion as the verdicts were announced in court on Friday after more than nine hours of deliberations.

He was convicted of two counts of assault by penetration, three counts of rape and a sexual assault against the first victim against whom he was also found not guilty of attempting to suffocate or strangle her and another count of rape.

He was also convicted of charges of sexual assault and assault by penetration against two further victims although he was cleared of raping a fourth woman.

Judge Anthony Bate adjourned sentence until February 7 next year to allow for preparation for a pre-sentence report specifically looking at the issue of dangerousness" and the risk he "poses to young women in particular".

The judge also wanted a psychological risk assessment to be carried out on the defendant prior to him being sentenced.

Tinder (Image: Newsquest)

Judge Bate said: "He seemed to be displaying traits of a personality disorder which I think needs to be carefully considered by an appropriate clinician".

Kadolski, who resigned from the East of England Ambulance Service, initially faced two further charges of raping a woman while she slept and false imprisonment of a woman who claimed she had been locked in a bathroom.

But during the trial the court heard he had no case to answer and jurors were ordered to return not guilty verdicts on those two counts.