A HEREFORDSHIRE man has escaped a jail term after making a grossly offensive call to 999.

Clint Haines entered a guilty plea when he appeared before magistrates in Hereford on February 3 after previously pleading not guilty.

The court heard that the 39-year-old had made a grossly offensive or indecent, obscene, or menacing phone call to 999 on August 24.

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He also admitted committing a further offence while subject to a suspended sentence imposed by magistrates in Kidderminster on April 16, 2020.

Haines, of Sufton Lane, Mordiford, was handed a 12-month community order and must pay costs of £60 and a £90 victim surcharge.

His suspended sentence was not activated because, magistrates said, of his long compliance, the effect of a brain injury on his life, and because he is the carer for his son.