Ambulance bosses have spoken of how "appalled" they are by the sex offences committed by a former member of staff, as the victims reveal their impact of their ordeals.
The East of England Ambulance Service Trust (EEAST) has issued a statement after Jamie Kadolski was jailed for 12 years.
An 11-day trial held at Norwich Crown Court earlier this year heard how Kadolski wore his NHS uniform on his Tinder profile and told the women he was a paramedic.
The statement said: "We are appalled at the crimes that Jamie Kadolski has been sentenced for today.
“Kadolski was immediately suspended when we were alerted of his arrest.
“Our thoughts are with the victims and all those affected by these horrific crimes.
"We recognise the courage it takes to come forward and speak out.”
The spokesman said Kadolski, who joined them in March 2023 and became a call handler in October 2023, was stood down from work when managers were alerted to his arrest in December 2023.
The spokesman insisted EEAST took its responsibility to "create a safe and respectful working environment for everyone seriously".
Following his trial, Kadolski, of Ladysmith Road, Norwich, was convicted of two counts of assault by penetration, three counts of rape and a sexual assault against the first victim.
He was also found not guilty of attempting to suffocate or strangle her, and of another count of rape.
He was also convicted of charges of sexual assault and assault by penetration against two further victims.
However, he was cleared of raping a fourth woman.
Imposing an extended 15 year sentence - made up of 12 years custody and three years on licence - Judge Anthony Bate said Kadolski had used ID cards and uniforms to give a "misleading impression" of his work status.
Judge Bate insisted Kadolski had "no insight into the severity of his offending".
He said the three victims - who cannot be identified for legal reasons - had given "powerful" statements to the court telling of the "enduring impact of his offending".
The statements are as follows.
FIRST VICTIM
"Since being raped by Jamie my life has changed in so many different aspects.
"I feel like I've had to change my entire personality and the way I act just to try and get through the day.
"I can't even talk about being raped in a serious manner because every time I try it feels like a tiny part of me gets lost during the discussion.
"I couldn't tell my family for years and in fact I never did tell them, they all found out on their own and the word just spread about what happened to me.
"We don't talk about it often and I hate when they ask me questions about it.
"I have never felt so humiliated, ashamed and like a disappointment than in that moment where they all found out the truth, and I still have those feelings to this day.
"I can't even escape the reality of it when I sleep.
"Whenever I close my eyes all I do is have these vivid flashbacks of being forced down and roughly assaulted, by a man who claimed to have loved me and stated in court 'it was a loving relationship' - if that's what love is, I have to believe it's not, then I want absolutely no part in it.
"I find it disgusting that he can claim these things after all he's done to me.
"Almost every night I have these nightmares that he's gotten into my house, and he comes into my room and rapes me, over and over, and then I wake up, after having just relived all of it again and then still have to go about my day as normal.
"I work nights at (a premises) near where Jamie’s house is.
"They brought in a new policy for lone working where I would work on my own in the office and this made me extremely paranoid when coming to and from work.
"I would think he was sat outside my work whenever I saw an unfamiliar car there and would refuse to get out of my car until either the random car left, or I saw the evening team coming out of the building so I could have someone near me.
"Obviously, this didn't help my job performance seeing as what I do for work is very emotionally taxing, while I'm having to balance the fear I have whilst simultaneously dealing with other people's emergencies.
"There were times I would have to call in sick to work because I just wasn't able to balance it.
"It's gotten to the point where if or when I go out with friends, I get extremely stressed out to the extent of having a panic attack or anxiety attack whilst I'm desperately trying to enjoy myself.
"I have this almost irrational fear that I am going to be killed when I am around people, I don't necessarily feel very familiar with.
"I used to go out almost every weekend and had a very vibrant social life, now I'm lucky if I see my friends once throughout the month because I just do not feel comfortable outside my own house.
"I also refuse to use dating apps anymore due to the danger I have already been put through.
"The potential risk of being raped again is just too high.
"But also, there's no point in using these dating apps anymore because the joy of being in a relationship has been ripped away from me.
"I don't trust people; I don't feel safe falling asleep next to people just in case they decide they want to assault me.
"I don't want to go to men's houses anymore out of fear, even if I know them and consider them a friend, I still feel wildly uncomfortable.
"I'm terrified of the aspect that at some point I may even have to tell a future partner about what happened to me, because what if they then decide I'm an easy target? Or that I'm weak or broken?
"People still have such a negative stigma over victims like me and it makes it impossible to be completely honest with the people you love most.
"This whole negative connotation surrounding relationships doesn't just affect me but also spreads to my friends as well, I get myself very worked up whenever my friends are talking about going to a guy's house.
"I don't feel like my friends are safe anymore around men and I get very protective over that.
"But having said that I then get extremely jealous that my friends have good relationships with their boyfriends and can't help but think why on earth I got so unlucky.
"I am eternally grateful that my friends have never (and hopefully will never) experience the violence and cruelty I faced, but I cannot help but feel so sad when they mention kind acts that their partners did.
"I don't trust eating food prepared by other people because of what happened when Jamie made me his first meal at his house.
"I'm pretty sure that was the first time I was raped by him (Jamie), like I owed him that, and I cannot get over that fact.
"Jamie would also lie to me about dress codes when going out to make me dress 'fancy' to just regular events.
"He would tell me it's a black-tie event, so I would go wearing a nice dress and heels and when I got there, everyone else would be wearing regular attires Jumpers and jeans - very casual).
"Now I hate going to events where I am told its black-tie attire, I have this fear that I'm going to be embarrassed again and deceived about it.
"It's a problem because I would do it quite often when I would go to London to visit friends and dress up for their important events where now I try to avoid it as much as possible.
"I regularly now dress in baggy clothing, even at work or in the summer I am mainly baggy jeans and a hoodie because it's what I feel safest in.
"I even hate having to go to the hospital for regular check-ups because of what happened.
"I have had panic attacks when I have had to stay there because I don't trust the people who work there anymore, the last time I was there and stayed overnight I discharged myself and had my brother pick me up due to how terrified I was.
"It's gotten to the point where I won't go see the doctors anymore out of fear that I will be sent to the hospital.
"Luckily, I am in pretty good health but problems I've had for years I have only just gone to the doctor about, one of which I am now having to frequently visit the hospital for to get a diagnosis.
"Every time I get in that car to drive myself down, I end up having an extreme emotional reaction where it just saps the life from me and I get overly upset, and I end up parking on a completely different part of the hospital because I refuse to keep my car near where I used to drop and collect Jamie from work.
"I hate having to see people wearing the exact same medical attire that I was lured in by and raped by the person wearing it.
"Seeing ambulances/paramedics on the street or random locations fills me with dread because although as I have since learnt Jamie is not a paramedic, I still have such a negative connotation around them.
"I hope that will change in time because after all what I experienced was nothing to do with the ambulance service and they don't deserve my hate."
SECOND VICTIM
"I didn’t think I would make it to this day alive.
"I have attempted suicide twice over the last few months.
"I have struggled trying to maintain a normal life whilst reliving what Jamie did to me and the pain he has caused me.
"By ending my life, I will be free of so much pain.
"Ever since the police came to my door in April, my world has turned upside down.
"I am a wreck and a shell of who I once was.
"Wherever I go, I look for the exit and stay as close to it as possible.
"I have forgotten what it feels like to be safe.
"Just this year, I have lived in three different properties because I am scared to live alone.
"I have been terrified that Jamie would find where I was, hunt me down and finish what he started, only I wouldn't be able to escape this time.
"I am the weak, vulnerable prey and Jamie is the power-hungry predator always lurking in the shadows.
"As I wrote this, I almost slit my wrists, just to be free of the pain.
"How is it fair that his actions can make me feel both helpless and worthless for the rest of my life.
"I know I had to be alive so that Jamie could see what his actions have caused.
"Now that the day has come and my vulnerabilities has been exposed, what is there to live for?
"In July, I was put in close proximity to ambulatory care workers wearing the same uniform Jamie did and I had a panic attack.
"My employer knew I had suffered a panic attack and granted me annual leave for a few days to get my head right.
"When I returned, my manager sat me down and forced me to leave. She told me I was 'too vulnerable' and I lost earnings.
"That trigger cost me my job and financial stability and now I am in debt.
"In spring, I was admitted into hospital and spent a few days on the surgical ward.
"But I demanded to leave because I was so triggered by the healthcare workers.
"Every worker had Jamie's face and every footstep was his.
"The hospital were very reluctant to let me leave and explained I will most likely need surgery but I was so triggered I didn’t care
"I don't drive and have to rely on public transport.
"But now I can't take a bus if I am unfamiliar with the route.
"After I escaped from the property Jamie was, I fled until I found a main road and a bus stop.
"The whole duration, I was shaking and trying to hold tears back.
"As soon as I saw somewhere familiar, I got off the bus but the damage had been done.
"It wasn't until I was home with all the windows and doors locked that I could breathe properly.
"Jamie wouldn't be able to hunt me down.
"Never again will I take an unfamiliar bus.
"My eating has become disordered since that horrific day.
"Initially I was binge eating and then I moved onto making myself sick.
"Now I starve myself for days on end but make myself sick daily.
"I can't bear to tell my family or friends about what Jamie did to me.
"I feel shame just thinking about it.
"I no longer have friends and my relationship with my family will never be the same.
"I can't hug them or bear to be touched.
"And they don't know why.
"I hope one day I won't feel shame and can tell them what Jamie did to me and why I haven't felt strong enough to talk about it.
"When my therapist, ISVA or Detective Claire say I'm brave, I can't bring myself to believe them.
"I don't feel worthy of love or happiness.
"Just the thought of having sexual relations or even being in close proximity to another man makes my body seize up and tighten out of fear.
"I am immediately back with Jamie on top of me, his hands around my neck, squeezing while he smirks with that evil glimmer in his eye.
"This now happens when I shower, I feel exposed and I feel his hands all over me.
"I have to restart my shower, sometimes it can be two to three hours before I feel clean.
"I wish I knew how I found the courage to face Jamie.
"Maybe its survivor's guilt.
"I reported what happened to the police but I wanted to move on with my life.
"Now, I am terrified of men.
"While I continued with my life, he was attacking innocent people.
"Maybe if I had been braver before, he would've been off the streets sooner and less people would've been hurt.
"I am sorry I wasn't brave enough."
THIRD VICTIM
"When I was sexually assaulted in September 2023, I took an overdose very shortly after and this resulted in three days in hospital.
"Whilst I was there felt useless, fed up pathetic and defective.
"I blamed myself for what happened to me, and I still do today.
"I overdosed again in November because I couldn't stop thinking about what had happened to me and these thoughts would not go away.
"I wanted to die, and I couldn't think of any other way that would make the thoughts stop.
"I had to stop working and went off sick for a while because I was terrified that he would turn up to my work, I ended up handing in my notice because I couldn't cope with the anxiety, I was experiencing every day I turned up to work.
"Along with my notice, I lost my independence and a steady income.
"After I handed in my notice, I found life hard, I laid in bed most days, numb and unable to feel anything, I had no motivation to do anything and I stopped doing anything that made me feel good because I believed I didn't deserve it.
"I went onto medication to help me with the way that I was feeling, and this is the only that helped me to carry on living at that point.
"I started to self-harm again after months of stopping this behaviour and did have to go to hospital for treatment .
"I now live with those scars and I hate the way that I look.
"I have gotten tattoos since the sexual assault, I got these to cover my scars to stop people from looking at me.
"They also have personal meaning to me but subconsciously I realised I liked the physical pain I felt when they were being done, this pain became an addiction for me.
"In March 2024 I got into a new relationship, and this was the first real glimmer of hope I had had for months.
"But I did struggle with trust and intimacy, the relationship went well for a while until my mental health took a rapid decline and my partner felt he could not longer support me, nor keep me safe, and he ended things.
"Things took another turn for me after my relationship ended and I felt like fell into a pit of darkness.
"I went to a bridge and wanted to die.
"I ended up being sectioned for my own safety, again I truly felt that there was no other way out.
"After this incident I started to self-harm again, I did this to cause myself pain, so the physical pain would be more severe than the mental pain I was feeling.
"Since the assault, l have dyed my hair six times try and be someone else.
"I also withheld food and water in hope that I would look and different the that got sexually assaulted but this never works.
"I have spent months war with myself, trying to figure out who I am and who I want.
"Even today I am still on that journey.
"I can't get the help that I need because I constantly in survival mode, trying to keep my head above water.
"The trial has made me feel anxious and severely depressed, hyper vigilant, terrified and the thought of what has happened to me haunts me."
