Local man banned from making ‘knowingly pointless’ calls to any public service
A 50 year old man who persistently called 999 services with false emergencies has been given a five year ASBO banning him from calling any public service.
Patrick Burke, who lives on Stamford Brook Avenue, made a huge number of regular calls to the emergency services over the past 15 years as well as calls to HM Customs and Excise and coastguards. Burke also repeatedly harassed people in public places.
He was given the ASBO at Feltham Magistrates Court this week banning him from:
- Contacting any public service or agency, including the 999 emergency system, and make deliberately frivolous or knowingly pointless phone calls leading to a waste of their time and resources.
-Make any false or malicious reports, or threats, regarding the health and safety of any person, or animal, by any communication methods to any person from within England and Wales.
- Make any malicious, alarming or false reports, to any person, involving firearms or terrorism.
- Engage in any behaviour that causes, or is likely to cause, harassment, alarm or distress to any person not of the same household as himself within England and Wales.
This is Burke’s second ASBO, the first was granted in 2005 for two years for the same kind of conduct. He breached the order and was sentenced to 18 months in prison.
July 26, 2008