A woman involved in a long-running dispute with her neighbours made a series of false calls to police - including claiming a dog had been poisoned by grapes thrown over her hedge.
Anne Egglestone, 60, phoned police for numerous trivial reasons, breaching a court order banning her from calling 999 except in a genuine emergency and the police non-emergency 101 number.
She has been twice been jailed previously for similar abusive calls to the police control room.
During the latest foul-mouthed calls she abused call handlers and accused the police of corruption for not taking action on bogus allegations against her neighbours, Norwich Magistrates’ Court was told.
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One call saw her report her neighbour for looking over her fence then calling back six minutes later claiming she was being deliberately ignored because she claimed her neighbours’ son was a police inspector.
Prosecutors said the calls between July and October continued even after she had been arrested and included four alone on October 13, one of which was a complaint that neighbours had made a dog sick by throwing grapes into her garden.
She pleaded guilty to multiple breaches of a criminal behaviour order put in place in May to stop her making false emergency calls and “causing nuisance or annoyance to her neighbours” in Spinney Close, Thorpe St Andrew, the court was told.
Her actions since were “deliberate breaches” and were aggravated by 17 previous convictions for 73 previous offences, said the prosecution.
She was previously jailed in 2019, after which neighbours described feeling like prisoners in their own home because she had deliberately positioned a security camera directly into their property.
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On that occasion she was sentenced to two years for breaching a suspended sentence by contacting emergency services and being abusive.
She also sent an offensive message for Norwich domestic abuse charity Leeway.
The judge told her: “You have a long record of being extremely unpleasant to other people. You are not a very nice piece of work."
She will be sentenced for the latest offences on February 15.
David Foulkes, mitigating, asked magistrates to order a pre-sentence report “given the number of offences and the background, including her complex mental health issues”.
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