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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Robyn Vinter North of England correspondent

Grimsby man jailed for sexually assaulting dead bodies in mortuary

Damon Tingay
Damon Tingay’s lawyer said the attack was ‘clearly out of character for this friendly, kind, considerate man’. Photograph: Humberside police/PA

A Grimsby man who went on a rampage in a hospital mortuary, violently and sexually attacking bodies, was told by a judge there was a “very, very dark side” to him as he was sentenced to six years in prison.

Damon Tingay, 30, broke into the Diana, Princess of Wales hospital in Grimsby in the early hours of 17 March and was caught on CCTV opening a number of fridges and interfering with the bodies.

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