AN 18-year-old has been jailed after he attacked a paramedic who tried to stop him having sex in the back of an ambulance.

Kyle Hargreaves and a female friend climbed into the ambulance which had been parked on the street in Grimsby, England, while the paramedics went inside a home to get a 92-year-old man who had been suffering chest pains.

Hargreaves punched the ambulance worker in the face three times after he was told to get out of the vehicle while yelling: “What’s your problem? We are just trying to have sex.

Grimsby Crown Court heard how paramedic Michael Newman was returning to the ambulance on February 15 — carrying the 92-year-old patient — when he and a co-worker found the teenager lying on a stretcher kissing a girl who was on top of him.

Although the pair were not having sex, Hargreaves got violent and claimed they were trying to when he was asked to leave.

He then punched Mr Newman in the face three times — all while the paramedic was still holding the pensioner up in a carry chair, a British court heard.

The crew pushed a panic button and police arrived shortly after and arrested Hargreaves, who was held down by the paramedics.

Mr Newman suffered a black eye, nose bleed and a cut to his nose. He was also bitten on the hand by the girl Hargreaves was with.

A separate crew then arrived to take the pensioner to hospital, while Mr Newman was treated for a black eye, a cut to his nose and a nose bleed.

Hargreaves was jailed for a total of two years and eight months.

A spokesman for East Midlands Ambulance Service, told The Mirror: “This was a disgraceful act, not only to attack an emergency ambulance crew while they were engaged on their duties and were trying to look after a patient, but it was also completely selfish and completely irresponsible because of what they were trying to use the ambulance for.”