Paramedics 'thought dying man was faking seizure to avoid arrest'

The family of a man who died of a series of seizures after his arrest accused medical staff of treating him like a "fake."

Rafael Gill, 29, had a total of six seizures and died in hospital in November 2019 after being taken into custody for drug and speeding charges.

The first three times he had seizures in the back seat of a police car, causing officers to call an ambulance "multiple times."

Rafael, who had a history of seizures, was not evaluated medically when paramedics arrived, the official document states. was the fourth patient, but from the fifth onwards was seen only by doctors on the A&E floor of Lewisham and Greenwich Hospitals.

Before his sixth and final seizure, the father of two was recorded saying, "I die," before his last breath.

In a conversation with Channel 4 his news, the family accused medical staff of not responding quickly enough and said he was "treated like no one." said.

They complained at a particular moment when paramedics appeared to question the legitimacy of the seizure and use an "inverted comma" hand gesture to describe Raphael's condition to a colleague.

However, paramedics strongly deny these allegations and say the shirt was inside.

Raphael's mother Karen Bond, said: Emily Anning, mother of Gill's young son, said: It's just awful to watch.

"Even if you thought he was pretending to be having a seizure and you thought he was lying, you should have treated him as if he wasn't lying." Talking is their job and that is their job.

The cause of death was listed as multiple seizures and cocaine taken along with prescription drugs.

37} However, coroner Jonathan Landau found that Rafael's arrest "disproportionately affected the assessment of urgency" by paramedics. expressed concern that it could not be transported to

Concerns were also raised about the unpreparedness of the oldest clinician who drove the ambulance to provide treatment, and that younger colleagues were 'unqualified to provide'. .

Paramedics believed they "saw him like a young black boy" who had just been arrested.

A senior London Ambulance Service employee agreed to meet with a member of the family, but " The inquiry did not find any evidence of racism or racist behavior," he stressed.

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