This is the moment a "callous and uncaring" paramedic stands with his hands in his pockets as a heart attack victim lays dying outside an NHS hospital.

Matthew Geary failed to provide any help to the patient despite seeing him stumble and fall to the ground.

CCTV footage played to Wolverhampton Crown Court showed him leaving Carl Cope - whom he wrongly assumed was drunk - collapsed in the road, before going inside to summon security staff.

Geary's actions outside Walsall Manor Hospital on June 23, 2012, were described in court yesterday as wholly at odds with his job.

Judge John Warner said his behaviour was "callous and uncaring" as he spared the shamed paramedic jail, handing him an eight-month suspended prison sentence.

The 36-year-old, of Manor Avenue, Great Wyrley, Staffordshire, pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to breaching health and safety laws by failing to conduct a proper examination of Mr Cope or to attempt prompt resuscitation.

He has since resigned from West Midlands Ambulance Service.

The court heard that Geary had brought Mr Cope, 47, to hospital suffering chest pains. He handed the patient over to nurses, but after a few minutes Mr Cope left to buy a drink from a nearby shop.

As he returned he collapsed in the car park, where Geary was seen chatting about football as the patient lay slumped beside a bin. When security arrived, Mr Cope showed no signs of life.

Additional reporting by PA