A laughing man urinated from a fourth-floor balcony on to a paramedic who was treating a patient in one of London's trendiest districts.

Andrew Whitehead, 22, from Shoreditch, subjected the medic, as well as a man who had been attacked, to the degrading ordeal at around 1am on January 31.

Lorna McIlwaine had been called with a police officer to the patient outside an address on Shoreditch High Street.

Lorna, 30, said: “I’d been called to treat a man who had suffered an unprovoked attack in a shop. He had a black eye and his nose had been broken and he was feeling very shaken.

“I was walking him to my response car with a police officer when, without any warning, I felt a splash. I didn’t know what it was at first but it became very clear it was a bodily fluid.

“I looked up and there was a man standing there, exposing himself to the whole street, laughing.

“I’ve been physically assaulted once before in my career and threatened as well, but what made this different was it felt so personal, and while all I was doing was helping a patient who was already shaken after being attacked.

“What makes it even more frustrating is that I needed to return to my station to change my uniform and fill in my report, which prevented me from responding to patients.”

Mr Whitehead was arrested by police and later charged. He was fined £250 and sentenced to 300 hours’ community service at Thames Magistrates' Court on January 20.

London Ambulance Service's Deputy Director of Operations Katy Millard said: “To treat our ambulance crews in such a demeaning and humiliating way is completely unacceptable. Our paramedics are only trying to care for patients in their time of need.

“Medics are already under a great deal of pressure. It is completely unacceptable that they should also face the risk of this treatment or worse when they go to assist members of the public.”