WHILE it’s fantastic that the NHS and police have united to install CCTV to help protect Worcestershire Royal Hospital workers, it’s a sad indictment of some of the scumbags in our society that the cameras are even needed.

You would think that at this time of national crisis when our NHS workers are more important than ever, even thieves would have the moral decency not to target a hospital car park. But that’s what they did, stealing the catalytic converters from the vehicles of two nurses – who were working 13-hour shifts – over the weekend.

In neighbouring counties, we have seen people jailed for targeting emergency services workers during the coronavirus climate: a man with suspected Covid-19 in Gloucestershire was jailed this week for intentionally coughing on a paramedic and then laughing and saying ‘you’ve got it now’. If the thief or thieves who stole the catalytic converters are caught and convicted, I hope they are sent to prison too. They cannot plead ignorance to harming an emergency worker as they deliberately targeted cars at a hospital car park.