An 83-year-old man has been fined £300 and ordered to pay £500 compensation after he admitted sexually touching a hospital worker after his wife had been saved.
The grateful pensioner suddenly hugged and kissed the shocked Glan Clwyd staff member on the lips - and stroked her breast over clothing, magistrates at Llandudno heard.
She felt “shocked and devastated,” prosecutor Gareth Parry said.
Emlyn Williams, of Capel Garmon, Llanrwst, a builder never in trouble before, was told by court chairman Duncan Stewart: "We are ever mindful health professionals must be protected from inappropriate behaviour such as this for which there’s no excuse.”
Williams must pay £115 costs.
Defence solicitor Graham Parry said it was a sad case and Williams was sorry and got carried away.
Williams’s wife had pneumonia at the time and her condition had been “touch and go.”
Mr Parry said: "What in his mind he was trying to do was he wanted to thank the lady.”
The pensioner didn’t dispute what happened but had little memory of it.
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