A heavy and symbolic sentence in the midst of the Covid pandemic.
David Chambers, a 33-year-old man, was sentenced to three and a half years in prison on Friday for charging for a fake vaccine.
The 92-year-old victim, who has always lived in Surbiton, south-west London, opened his door to him on December 30.
He had passed himself off as a member of the public health service, the NHS.
He then made her pay 140 pounds, claiming the sum would be refunded by the NHS, after stinging her with what she described as some sort of dart. He returned a few days later claiming 100 pounds, which the victim this time refused to pay.
In Kingston court, Judge Hannah Kinch blasted the "shameful and contemptible" behavior of defendant David Chambers, who admitted the facts and was sentenced to three and a half years in prison. In a statement quoted in a police statement, the victim said it was "excruciating" that someone is using the vaccination to extract money from the elderly and said she hopes the case will "not deter anyone from getting the vaccine. ". The police recalled that vaccination is free. Recently in Germany, it is a nurse, probably anti-vaccine, who performed more than 9,000 false injections with saline water.
More than 40 million people have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19, or three-quarters of the UK's adult population, which has recorded more than 130,000 deaths since the start of the pandemic.