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Blackburn ASBO man jailed for abusive call
12:00pm Wednesday 20th August 2008
A 45-year-old man was jailed for breaching an anti-social behaviour order by making an abusive phone call to police.
Blackburn magistrates heard that Romish Hira launched a foul mouthed rant at the operator after claiming offences were being committed at an address in Blackburn and demanding the police do something about it.
And the court heard Hira had already been jailed this year for breaching the order by possessing a knife in public and fined for breach by possessing butane gas.
Hira, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to breach of the order and was jailed for 28 days.
Andrew Church-Taylor, defending, said Hira believed he had the names of four men who had been grooming a teenage girl and behaving inappropriately with her.
He believed the police looked on him as a nuisance and took no action on his complaint.
“He believes he has a genuine complaint that should be investigated and said something completely over the top to the control centre operator to try and make her listen,” he said.
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