An elderly woman has been ordered to sign the Sex Offender Register after she tried to grab a paramedic's genitals as he was treating her following a fall at her home.

Christine Roles, 68, felt the emergency worker's knee as he checked her blood pressure before moving her right hand up to his crotch area and asking: ''How big is it?''

The paramedic, who cannot be named, pushed the pensioner's hand away but she then tried to stroke his chest before telling him to 'F..k off.''

Police later arrested Roles over the incident at her sheltered accommodation in Flixton, where she lives alone in a flat.

At Manchester magistrates court, Roles denied sexual assault but JPs found the incident did take place in a finding of facts hearing. She had been earlier deemed unfit to formally plead in court due a memory loss problem.

Despite her condition she will have to sign the register alongside paedophiles and rapists for an interim period pending further psychiatric tests.

The incident took place on April 24 last year after Roles called 999 after falling over.

The court heard that she had a history of heavy drinking and making hoax calls.

At the time she was subject to a two-year Criminal Behaviour Order prohibiting her from calling 999 unless in the event of a genuine emergency.

Describing the incident, the paramedic said: “I was working that day I was with my colleague, we went to the property and there was no answer, so we went to the window and seen she was stood up in the front room.

“She let us into the property. She opened up the door and said she didn’t phone and didn’t know why we were there – it was along the lines of ‘f--k off what are you doing here? I didn’t call for you.’

“She seemed normal, the normal Christine. I have been to her multiple times. She didn’t seem intoxicated to an extent where she couldn’t understand what was going on. There have been a lot of times where she’s been drinking. She has always denied drinking.

“We did deem that she had capacity to understand why we were there a to allow us to fulfil our role. She was fine she walked into the front room and we followed her and had a sit down.

“We had a discussion about why we were there and asked to carry out some observations. She was quite relaxed and allowed us to carry out the observations because she said she had fallen over earlier on that day.

“I placed her arm down with the palm up onto my leg, and she turned it round onto my knee and I said it is inappropriate to touch me like that. I said ‘what are you doing?’ And she said ‘I was just seeing if I could make you jump.’

“I moved my hand away and pushed the hand off my knee and we had a discussion about how it is inappropriate to touch people in that manner, especially when you are there to help.

“Then she tried to grab hold of my crotch and asked ‘how big it was’ she was still sat next to me. She just put her hand across she must have got half way up my thigh, I pushed her hand away. I had to physically remove her off myself.

“It was towards my groin area I think the hand was heading towards my testicles, she probably would have gripped onto my testicles. I thought she was talking about the size of my penis.

“I stood up and moved to the doorway and said to my colleague ‘we are not staying here any more’. As we were leaving she then began to tell us to f--k off and get out, she did begin to stroke my chest again.

“We went outside to the ambulance. I didn’t deem there was an emergency reason to phone an ambulance that day, there was no medical findings and there was no sign of injury.”

His colleague said: “She was saying she didn’t want to go to f--king hospital, it was clear that she had had a drink, but she wasn’t in a state worse than I have seen her previously. She was wobbly on her feet.

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“My colleague asked if he could do some observations and she said he could do anything he liked. She was complaining of some pain in her shoulders.

“I was doing the paperwork and asking questions. Christine seemed able bodied. She was up and about when we arrived, came to the door, let us in. There was no sign of any broken skin or bruising.

“I was sat opposite. I didn’t actually witness what she did but he said ‘don’t do that’ and I stood up and said what’s she doing and he said that she tried to grab his crotch.

“I tried to finish the paperwork as quickly as possible. He was standing in the doorway. She got up and was stood in front of him in the doorway. He said ‘don’t do that.' I said what is she doing this time and she said she ‘just wanted to see how big it was’.

In police interview Roles said: “I made a genuine call to the emergency services as I fell over at my home address. I was in a great deal of pain. My recollection is vague, as the man was checking my blood pressure I put my hand to his knee to steady myself. I did not attempt to grab his groin or make inappropriate comments.”

She was not called to give evidence but could be heard saying to her care worker, who attended with her, that the hearing was a 'stitch up' and complaining that the witnesses had 'got their stories together'. She will face court again next month.

Defence barrister Heather Crossthwaite said: “Since this incident she had been found unfit to stand trial and unfit to plea, there are concerns in relation to memory difficulties. She has since been seen by an expert.”