A man made nuisance phone calls to the emergency services, telling a police call handler: “I’ll cut your throat.”
Andrew Bell, 39, of no fixed abode, was jailed for 88 days after he admitted making use of a public telephone system to cause annoyance or anxiety.
Carlisle's magistrates' court was told that Bell rang 999 on August 2 to inform police that someone had thrown water over him outside a nightclub.
He then made another two calls. In one of those calls he was abusive and told a police call handler: “I’ll cut your throat.”
He also pleaded guilty to breaching an anti-social behaviour order, being drunk and disorderly on Victoria Place in Carlisle on July 23 and stealing a bottle of wine from a shop in the city on July 31.
District Judge Gerald Chalk sentenced Bell to 88 days in custody.
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