A teenager who made a series of nuisance 999 calls also smashed every window of his home with empty bottles of alcohol.
Stuart Gerrard first called to claim the force was “corrupt” before calling back again and declaring himself a “kiddie fiddler”.
The 18-year-old repeatedly ignored demands to stop from both call handlers and police officers, who paid his Macduff home a visit during the evening of January 19 this year.
Banff Sheriff Court heard how he used the emergency line to make claims of police corruption, play music, shout and swear, and make false accusations in a bid to receive a visit from the police.
Assured call handler it was an emergency
Fiscal depute Ellen Barr said during that the first call at 11am he claimed it was an emergency.
“He said ‘yes, I am getting lifted for something I never done, yet yous can go seize my phone’.
“The call handler asked what the emergency was and he replied ‘The emergency is I speak to yous cos yous are corrupt’.”
After that call was terminated he rang back two minutes later where he shouted and screamed down the phone and gave false details about his name and date of birth.
He then claimed someone was in his home with a knife, changed his story to say a knifeman was outside, then changed it again to say someone was armed with both a bottle and a knife.
“He continued his accusations about police corruption,” the fiscal added.
“Some 25 mins later he again called 999 and was immediately shouting and swearing and making threats towards police officers. He was playing music down the phone and said that he was a kiddie fiddler and a paedophile.
“He said ‘what are you going to do about it?’
“Police officers were dispatched to his address and advice was given about his use of the 999 system.”
Made six calls in 75 minutes
But after police left he made a fourth nuisance call at 11pm and a fifth six minutes later, both times demanding that police pay him a visit.
“Twenty minutes later he placed another call and claimed there was someone outside his door,” the fiscal added.
This time police attended and cautioned and arrested Gerrard who spent a night in custody before appearing at Aberdeen Sheriff Court.
He admitted making repeated nuisance calls causing annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety.
He also admitted further charges of threatening or abusive behaviour and resisting arrest whereby he smashed every window in his home using empty alcohol bottles.
Smashed every window of his flat
The fiscal said Gerrard’s neighbours witnessed the intoxicated teen using empty alcohol bottles to strike and smash “every single window” in his flat causing the shattered glass to litter the garden area during an incident at around 7pm on March 2 this year.
Gerrard’s defence agent Iain Jane said: “He is clearly a young man with a number of issues. These offences exhibit that he is the architect of his own misfortune to an extent as he has been offered opportunity after opportunity.
“Decision-making is something he needs to work on.”
The solicitor added that the teenager had taken a while to give up his “delusional” stance that he hadn’t made the calls – but now accepted full responsibility for his “quite disgraceful behaviour on both occasions”.
Sheriff Robert McDonald said the teenager had “had to try very hard to get himself arrested”.
Gerrard is already on a community order having admitted recording himself having sex with a 15-year-old girl and then uploading it to Snapchat. That means he’s now approaching his limit for unpaid work hours.
Poses a danger to the public
Sheriff McDonald told him: “You are getting to the point where we are running out of things we can usefully do with you apart from putting you in some sort of custody. That would be very unfortunate for you given your age but this is the sort of behaviour the public needs to be protected from.”
He added that the 999 calls could have stopped crews dealing with genuine emergencies, and the window-smashing incident was “wanton destruction” which cannot be tolerated in society.
He handed Gerrard, of Moray Street, Macduff, 220 hours of unpaid work and supervision for one year.
The teenager must also comply with random drug testing and work with substance misuse and psychiatric support services as instructed by social workers.
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