Lennoxtown women admits wasting ambulance service time

A woman cost the ambulance service £15,000 after making 100 bogus calls.

29 year-old Denise Sinclair repeatedly dialled for helped when there was no need to.

She called NHS 24 a total of 100 times and also turned up at Glasgow's Royal Infirmary on more than 150 occasions in just a year.

This included Sinclair asking for help three times in one day for a supposedly wounded arm.

Prosecutor Alisdair Millar told Glasgow Sheriff Court: "She has cost the Scottish Ambulance Service £15,000."

Sinclair from East Dunbartonshire pleaded guilty to a charge of repeatedly calling the emergency services when no reason existed.

The court was told she suffered from personal issues.

But, Sheriff Mary McCrory still told her: "This was serious behaviour and it implicated on the wider public."

Sinclair was placed on a two year supervision order.