The British policeman who left a Greek homeless to die from the cold was fired

She let him die while he was watching a movie

A British police officer who fired a Greek homeless man out of a London police station while he was watching a DVD while on duty has been fired from his job, two years after the shocking incident opinion.

Pericles Malagardis, who in 2016 slept where he was at Heathrow Airport, had gone to the Axbridge Police Department, in the greater London area, to pick up his dog.

The 63-year-old half-blood jack Russell, Jango, was transported to a kennel by the authorities, when his owner had to be hospitalized for a skin infection.

The Greek homeless man arrived at the police station at 4 in the afternoon, on March 4, 2016, in order to pick up his dog. While the police initially told him to wait in the area for the public, after several hours and while it was dark, police officer Bhupinder Kalsi and a colleague asked him to go out because he lit a cigarette. The old man refused and a little while later Kalsi threw him out, to quietly watch a DVD in his office, during office hours.

Mr. Malagardis stayed outside the Police Station all night. At 5.30am, a police officer who went out to check on the man saw that he had lost consciousness and called an ambulance. The homeless man was taken back to the hospital, where he recovered at 6.45 in the morning, from symptoms of hypothermia. The case was referred to the British Attorney General's Office to investigate whether he would be prosecuted for negligent homicide, but it was finally decided that there was insufficient evidence.

At a recent internal hearing, the London Metropolitan Police Disciplinary Board decided to dismiss Bhupinder Kalsi, almost two and a half years after the incident. The draft decision stated that the police officer not only failed to follow the instructions given to him by his training in dealing with similar incidents, but also failed to provide vital information to the injured, about what exactly had happened to the homeless man, information that they may have saved his life.

The disciplinary board also reported that the police officer was watching a DVD in his office without showing the slightest interest in the fate of the vulnerable man who had been left waiting in the cold for his dog.

Mr Malagardis moved to London in 1989 and worked as a driver for over a decade. According to the Independent, he had ended up homeless after losing his job and a divorce. Heathrow Airport officials who knew him spoke of a likeable man, while some had even started a fundraiser to raise money to help him return to Greece.

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