‘There’s a gunman at me mam’s house!’

A hoax caller repeatedly dialled 999 claiming there was a gunman outside his mother’s house, a court heard.

Leon Khan, 34, hounded Kensington police from a public telephone box for more than eight hours between 9 April and 16 April last year.

Khan made a total of 63 calls alleging a gunman at his mother’s front door.

He urged police to arrest him so he could be interviewed about his claims, the Old Bailey heard.

Khan, of no fixed address but from the Kensington area, claimed police officers have tampered with the transcripts of the calls.

He was later convicted of making hoax calls and is now appealing against his conviction.

Ciaran Smith, prosecuting, said Khan repeatedly dialled 999 and shouted abuse at officers over the phone.

‘This prosecution is based on the volume as well as the content of the calls,’ said Mr Smith,

Pol Sgt Anthony Miller said he was aware of Khan’s claims but could not talk to him when he called him back.

‘It was a continuous rant, I couldn’t get a word in,’ he said.

In the transcripts of the calls read out in court Khan shouted ‘I am not coming off this 999 line, you are going to have to send someone to arrest me so I can be interviewed about the gunman at my mother’s door.’

He then began screaming down the phone saying: ‘Shut your mouth and get your supervisor.

‘Why or how is it that a police informant is allowing a gunman to come to my mother’s house.’

On 15 April Khan called back from a telephone booth saying: ‘I am still reporting the same thing. This is not going to stop.’

Khan, who is representing himself, cross examined Sgt Miller only for The Common Serjeant of London, Judge Richard Marks, QC said: ‘Let me interrupt. You are making a speech at the moment, do you have any questions for this witness?’

His appeal against conviction for ‘persistent use of electronic communications to send false messages to cause annoyance and anxiety’ continues.
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