\n A hoax caller has been jailed after making bomb threats to St Pancras station, the Ritz and other London landmarks.<\/p>\n
Paul Fisher, of St Peters Path in Oadby, Leicestershire, made calls to numerous police forces\u00a0on May 5, claiming that he planted bombs across England.<\/p>\n
Three calls were made to the Metropolitan Police stating that he planted bombs at Heathrow Airport, St Pancras and Scotland Yard.<\/p>\n
He also made a call to Leicestershire Police stations that there was a bomb the Ritz.<\/p>\n
Another call was made to West Midlands Police claiming there was a bomb at Birmingham Airport.<\/p>\n
Lincolnshire Police received two calls from Fisher, in which eh stated he planned to blow up pubs in Boston and Lincoln.<\/p>\n
Another call was made to Humberside Police station in Hull.<\/p>\n
The 61-year-old pleaded guilty to eight counts of a bomb hoax, communicating false information, when he appeared at Leicester Magistrates\u2019 Court\u00a0on May 7.<\/p>\n
Fisher also pleaded guilty to three counts of causing wasteful employment of police, concerning calls made to Leicestershire Police\u00a0on April 13\u00a0and\u00a0May 5.<\/p>\n
He also admitted to one count of threatening to destroy or damage property after a call as made to Leicestershire Police and Leicestershire Fire and Rescue\u00a0on April 3.<\/p>\n
On Monday (August 11), Fisher was sentenced to five years and two months\u2019 imprisonment.<\/p>\n
Detective Constable Kevin Sharkey, the officer in the case, said: \u201cWhen calls of this nature are made, police rightly treat them as a legitimate concern until it can be determined there\u2019s no credible threat or risk of life to the public.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe impact hoax calls can have on the emergency services, businesses and the public are vast. Such mindless actions interrupt our infrastructure and end up costing significant amounts of money.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m pleased Fisher now has to face the consequences of his actions and hope today\u2019s outcome serves as a serious deterrent to anyone who thinks his behaviour was in any way acceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A hoax caller has been jailed after making bomb threats to St Pancras station, the Ritz and other…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-340463","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}