Stowmarket man jailed after breach of criminal behaviour order

A man from Stowmarket has been sentenced to nine months in jail after making multiple emergency calls to police and ambulance.

Andrew Alden (pictured above) of Pintail Road, in Stowmarket, appeared before Ipswich Magistrates Court on Friday, December 2, where he pleaded guilty to 15 counts of breaching his criminal behaviour order and one count of sending false message by public electronic communication network to cause annoyance, inconvenience or anxiety.

The 61-year-old was sent to prison for a total of nine months and was ordered to pay compensation of £450 to the ambulance service and £150 compensation to the police. He was also made subject to a new criminal behaviour order for three years.

Between March 2, 2022, and November 20, 2022, police had 73 calls logged from his home address – the ambulance service also received a significant number of calls. The initial criminal behaviour order was issued by Ipswich Magistrates Court on August 4, 2020.

The CBO prevented the defendant from calling 999 emergency services and from calling 111 NHS number unless such call was a genuine emergency, reasonable and justifiable and was to run between August 4, 2020, and August 3, 2022. This was issued following a conviction in 2020 for sending false message by public electronic communication network to cause annoyance, inconvenience or anxiety for multiple false calls to police and ambulance.