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BBC News
07-07-2025
- BBC News
Worthing foot fetish nuisance caller given suspended sentence
A man who admitted making more than 1,200 nuisance calls to emergency services to indulge a "sexual" foot fetish has been given a suspended Cove posed as an elderly woman called Helen Cheeseman to get operators to tell him about their feet, calling the NHS 111 line up to 60 times a day, a court heard. Cove, 49, of Boundary Road in Worthing, targeted specific Sussex Police call handlers, telling them he wanted to talk about his smelly, sweaty pleaded guilty to wasting hours of police time in April and was handed a 10-week suspended sentence at Worthing Magistrates Court. Investigating officer, Rose Horan, said: "He specifically targeted female officers, some in busy departments dealing with serious sexual offences and online child abuse, wasting scarce public resources to indulge his sexual fetish."Cove was also banned from calling 999 unless in a genuine emergency and ordered to do 200 hours of unpaid September 2021, Cove was also given a 16-week prison sentence suspended for two years for calling the NHS 111 service.
BBC News
30-06-2025
- BBC News
Huge inquiry after a million people's data stolen from garages
Eight men have been convicted over the theft of a million people's personal details from vehicle garages across the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said it was "one of the largest nuisance call cases" they had Curry, ICO head of investigations, said: "This case uncovered a vast, murky criminal network where crash details were stolen from garages across England, Scotland and Wales and traded to fuel distressing predatory calls."The group, which conducted their crimes between 2014 and 2017, were due to be sentenced at a later date at Bolton Crown Court. 'Snowballed' Jurors at a 10-week trial heard how the ICO seized the "widest body of evidence it has ever seen", highlighting the misuse of personal data for nuisance calls to persuade people to make personal injury investigation began in 2016 when the owner of a car repair garage in County Durham contacted the regulator with concerns after customers blamed him for the calls they were watchdog said their investigation "snowballed into one of the largest nuisance call cases the ICO has ever dealt with".Investigators then arrested eight people from Greater Manchester and Cheshire. Data sold to claims firms The ICO also found devices with 4.5 million documents,144,000 spreadsheets and 241,000 also contained 1.5 million images and 83,000 multimedia obtained personal data of about one million people from garages without their consent before selling them to claims management ICO said it expected further prosecutions of people "embedded into insurance companies and claims management companies with the sole aim of stealing personal data" as part of the second phase of its investigation. The convicted men included:Craig Cornick, 40, of Prestbury, guilty of conspiracy to unlawfully obtain personal data contrary to the Data Protection Daly, 35, pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to unlawfully obtain personal McCartan, 30, of Failsworth - pleaded guilty to conspiracy to unlawfully obtain personal data contrary to the Data Protection Act and conspiracy to secure unauthorised access to data held on computer systems contrary to the Computer Misuse Flanagan, 40, of Macclesfield - pleaded guilty to conspiracy to unlawfully obtain personal data contrary to the Data Protection Act and conspiracy to secure unauthorised access to data held on computer systems contrary to the Computer Misuse Preece, 44, of Manchester - pleaded guilty to conspiracy to unlawfully obtain personal data contrary to the Data Protection Act and conspiracy to secure unauthorised access to data held on computer systems contrary to the Computer Misuse Thorlby, 35, of Macclesfield - pleaded guilty to conspiracy to unlawfully obtain personal data contrary to the Data Protection Act and conspiracy to secure unauthorised access to data held on computer systems contrary to the Computer Misuse Moktadir, 32, of Stockport - pleaded guilty to conspiracy to unlawfully obtain personal data contrary to the Data Protection Crompton, 35, of Northwich - pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to unlawfully obtain personal data contrary to the Data Protection Act. Read more stories from Cheshire on the BBC, watch BBC North West Tonight on BBC iPlayer and follow BBC North West on X. You can also send story ideas via Whatsapp to 0808 100 2230.
CTV News
09-05-2025
- General
- CTV News
Sudbury combats misuse of 911 calls
Northern Ontario Watch Greater Sudbury is joining other communities across northern Ontario in an effort to reduce the number of nuisance and mistaken 911 calls made each year
