A hoaxer made greater than 2,000 bogus calls to emergency companies – and threatened to kill ambulance employees with a machete.
Paul Hennessy, 57, racked up 4 calls a day on common for 18 months, utilizing aliases to inform lies together with that he had gone into cardiac arrest.
On one event he claimed he had been attacked on his doorstep with an unknown substance – however when officers arrived he had no signal of damage.
He additionally advised an operator he would assault ambulance employees with a machete at a Make Prepared centre in Hastings, East Sussex, the place ambulances are ready for call-outs.
And he mentioned he would kill a crew in the event that they had been despatched to his tackle.
The service spent 1000's on further safety for staff.
Hennessy, of St Leonards, admitted two counts of sending threatening digital communications and was jailed for a yr at Lewes crown court docket.
PC Darren McCann mentioned the cellphone pest grew to become ‘infamous’ by ‘losing useful time on 999 calls the place police and ambulance employees might have been replying to real emergencies’.
The officer added: ‘We hope he can have time to replicate on his appalling behaviour in jail.’
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