A 999 hoaxer who has been plaguing the emergency services with bogus calls for at least 16 years has been jailed. Kevin Foster, 53, from Ashton-under-Lyne, was handed an antisocial behaviour order in 2004 which was replaced years later by a criminal behaviour order, both of which stipulated he should only call the emergency services when lives were threatened.
But he would repeatedly dial 999 when he was drunk and claim, falsely, that he was about to kill himself, a court heard. The father with a long criminal record has now breached the orders 51 times following his latest drunken early hours 999 calls.
Foster, now of Castle Street in Richmond, north Yorkshire, admitted five charges of breaching a criminal behaviour order and one count of