Thursday, October 9, 2025
Hospital staff should be able to do their jobs safely, without being subjected to violence and threats.
That is why Andrew Burrows (pictured) is now serving a prison sentence having appeared in court this week for assaulting staff while a patient at Blackpool Victoria Hospital.
Burrows was being treated in the A&E department on the afternoon of 19th April this year when he turned violent.
He hit a nurse in the face after she tried to take some pills off Burrows which he had emptied on to a bed.
Burrows then assaulted a member of the hospital’s security team who had been called to the department, punching him in the face causing an injury to his eye socket and nose.
He was on bail at the time, having assaulted three people at an address in Tudor Place, Blackpool a few weeks earlier.
Those assaults stemmed from the loss of a mobile phone, with his three female victims needing hospital treatment.
Burrows, 26, formerly of Clifton Drive, Blackpool, and now of no fixed address, appeared for sentence at Preston Crown on Monday having pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to inflicting grievous bodily harm, assault of an emergency worker, assault causing actual bodily harm and assault by beating.
He was jailed for a total of three-and-a-half years and made subject of restraining orders in relation to the three victims of the Tudor Place assaults.