Adam Fairclough, 20, yelled ‘I have Aids’ as he smeared his own blood and excrement on Alder Hey children’s hospital security guards (Picture: Liverpool Echo)

A thief yelled ‘I have Aids’ as he smeared his blood and faeces over security guards at a hospital, a court has heard.

Adam Fairclough, 20, attacked four staff members at Alder Hey hospital in Liverpool in March in front of shocked patients and visitors.

One of his victims was forced to wait three-months for HIV test results after the heroin addict’s blood went near a cut on his hands, the Liverpool Echo reports.

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Fairclough, from Norris Green, was jailed for 20 weeks at Liverpool Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday after being convicted of four assault charges.


The victims, Stephen Harrison, Jimmy Campion, Sean Helbert and Phillip Mitchell, visited the hospital’s onsite WHSmith shop after spotting Fairclough acting suspiciously on CCTV on March 30.



In a statement read by prosecutor David Maxwell, Mr Harrison said: ‘When I got there he was sitting on the floor, with Ferrero Rocher trays around him.

‘He was pretending to have an asthma attack, but he quickly stopped and was pleading with us to let him go… He then tried to make himself sick, but he was faking it.’

Victims Stephen Harrison, Jimmy Campion, Sean Helbert and Phillip Mitchell visited the hospital’s onsite WHSmith shop after spotting Fairclough acting suspiciously on CCTV on March 30. (Picture: Getty)

The court heard that the guards escorted Fairclough out of the shop to a seating area but that he then bit his left thumb and ‘chomped down until he drew blood’.

Fairclough then ‘rubbed his hands together’ to cover them in blood, the court heard.

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Mr Harrison’s statement continued: ‘I was trying to pin down his head but he was squirming very strongly. I realised I had blood on my hand and I knew it was from the male.

‘He started saying “I have got Aids, I have got hepatitis”. I responded “you better be joking lad”.’

Fairclough then smeared the victims with faeces, forcing the guards to release him and then escaped out of the hospital in his underwear.

The court heard that Fairclough was eventually detained in October, after he threatened to stab police officers with hypodermic needles.

Defending, Sheila Whitehead, said: ‘There is no explanation as to his behaviour over that period, he clearly behaved in a way that was unacceptable.’

The court heard Fairclough, who has 28 convictions on his record including for theft and arson, was seeking help for his drug addiction.

He was also sentenced to 20 weeks for stealing £47 worth of chocolate from WHSmith, to run alongside the other sentence.

Fairclough will be sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court in January for two charges of possession of a bladed article, in relation to the threats against the police officers.