A Pallion nuisance caller could be jailed if he continues to pester the 999 service without good cause.
Paul Simpson has been given a three-year Antisocial Behaviour Order after making more than 100 nuisance calls to Northumbria Police and Durham Constabulary in the last year.
They have included requests to be given a lift home when he is drunk and foul-mouthed abuse, with more calls placed with the ambulance service where he has also wrongly claimed he needed help.
It follows a previous order, which ran from 2005 to 2007, with the level of Simpson’s bad behaviour dropping until the last year, when repeated calls to the emergency services were made.
Adults who breach Asbos can be fined up to £5,000 or sentenced to five years in prison, or both.
Story first seen on Sunderland Echo at http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/crime/pest-caller-dialed-999-for-a-lift-home-when-drunk-1-5612607
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