AN ISLE of Wight man with a history of making hundreds of nuisance and abusive emergency phone calls, has been warned he must comply with a community behaviour order (CBO) within the next two years, or face imprisonment.

Michael Clifton-Smith, from Ventnor, appeared at the Isle of Wight Magistrates' Court on Tuesday, November 26.

He was fined £200 last month for persistently making use of a public communication network to cause annoyance, inconvenience and anxiety, between November 15 last year and March 13.

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He also breached a community protection notice (CPN), which barred him from calling emergency services, unless in genuine emergencies, between December 4 last year and March 12.

And Clifton-Smith, on a previous appearance to that, was also fined for making more than 1,000 nuisance and abusive calls to emergency services in less than a year.

His calls included a threat to kill a call handler and put an air ambulance call-out at risk.

Despite the CPN, Clifton-Smith continued to make nuisance calls, being "aggressive and rude" toward call takers — phoning the ambulance service ten times and the police 21 times. 

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Magistrates made Clifton-Smith, who is autistic with other 'communication-related' disorders, subject to a two-year CBO, warning him of imprisonment if he flouted this new order by calling 999, unless there was a risk to life or property, and being abusive to call staff.

Magistrates ordered him to only use the NHS 111 line or the police's 101 line if he had non-urgent problems.

Clifton-Smith promised magistrates he would stay out of trouble because he wanted "a quiet and peaceful existence". 

The CBO application was made immediately after he was sentenced last month.

Breaches of a CBO, if of the most serious category, can carry a sentence of up to five years' imprisonment.