A High Wycombe man who was labelled by police as a “burden to the community” has been jailed for making 999 calls when there was no emergency.

Appearing at Wycombe Magistrates’ Court on July 5, Daniel Wickes, aged 55, of Tilling Crescent, was sentenced to four months in prison.

Wickes admitted breaching a criminal behaviour order, that was issued in January last year, which prohibited him from calling 999 in a non-emergency.

The defendant breached the order when he made 999 calls on July 2.

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The order, which lasts for six years, also prevents him from entering High Wycombe town centre, being drunk in the town, entering any pub or bar in the town or having any open container of alcohol in a public place in High Wycombe.

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In March 2020, Wickes was issued with a 39-day prison sentence for breaching the order.

At the time of the sentencing, investigating officer PC Terry Quick, of High Wycombe police station, called Wickes a “burden to the community”.

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He said: “Wickes has wasted countless hours of emergency service time through false reporting and has displayed violent behaviour to police and social services trying to help him.

“Wickes is a burden to the community through anti-social behaviour and wasting emergency services time.”

Just over a year later, Wickes was brought before magistrates once again for breaching the order and was issued with a much sterner sentence this time around.

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The magistrates took issue with Wickes’s “flagrant disregard” for the court order, and his previous breach was considered an aggravating factor, hence the harsher four-month prison sentence.

Wickes was also ordered to pay £128 costs to the court.

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