He'd Better Hope He Doesn't Get Sick

[Champ]

LONDON (Reuters) - A British man with a fetish for medical items has become the first person to be banned from every hospital in England and Wales, the government said on Wednesday.



Unemployed Norman Hutchins, 53, has harassed and abused medical staff more than 40 times since January in his quest for surgical masks and gowns, a court in the northern city of York was told.


The court banned him from all private and state-run National Health Service hospitals and doctors' and dentists' offices.


Hutchins tried to obtain medical items by feigning illness, or claiming to need them for a fancy dress run or an amateur play, the Times newspaper reported.

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[matcom]

1. too late. beat ya