A woman has been locked away after being found guilty of flooding the 999 emergency number with fake calls.
Holly Coogan, 32, has been handed a 12-month jail sentence for spending 59 hours on hoax calls to emergency services while drunk.
She pleaded guilty to the offence at Nottingham Crown Court and was handed jail time on Thursday (February 6 2020).
Nottinghamshire Police revealed that Holly, from Vernon Road in Nottingham, used her mobile phone to make eight calls to East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) on December 6 2019 within a space of four hours.
The week after, she rang EMAS again and emergency services staff attended, but she refused to open her door to them or pick up her phone when called.
During the same incident, the Fire Service arrived and help paramedics gain entry to the property.
Holly is then reported to have refused all help and did not want the ambulance staff inside.
She made another series of calls to 999 three days later, in the early hours on 16 December 2019, when she rang the line 10 times within one hour.
Callers run the risk of a heavy fine and even a prison sentence.
And on three occasions, she terminated the call while talking to the cal handler.
Nottinghamshire Police said each of the incidents breached Holly’s two-year Criminal Behaviour Order, which was in place since January 2019.
It has seen been increased to five years.
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