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Connor Gordon

Woman, 29, cost ambulance service £15k with 100 bogus calls

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

Denise Sinclair, 29, 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.

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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, of Lennoxtown, East Dunbartonshire, pled guilty to a charge of repeatedly calling the emergency services when no reason existed.

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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.

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