A WOMAN who made hundreds of ‘aggressive and abusive’ phone calls to police has been jailed – shortly after being released from prison for the same crime.

Serial phone pest Suzannah Grevett, 45, bombarded Hampshire Constabulary’s 101 number with 170 calls and is now starting a prison sentence after breaching a restraining order for a second time.

It was reported that Grevett has wasted 24 hours of police time with her “unacceptable” conduct, and that staff monitoring the phone line began to recognise Grevett’s voice.

As previously reported by the Daily Echo, Grevett called the non-emergency number a total of 374 times within two months in 2014 and was jailed on that occasion for three months at Southampton Magistrates’ Court.

Magistrates heard that she would call to inform the control room of what she was going to do that day, complaining about TV company Love Productions filming Immigration Street in the city, and asking if she could take up a tenancy in Ocean Village.

The calls began following her conviction for an assault, which she viewed as a miscarriage of justice.

Representing herself in court in Southampton, Grevett denied two charges of persistently making use of a public communication network to cause annoyance, convenience or anxiety and said she “couldn’t remember making the phone calls”.

She said: “I dispute the amount of phone calls that I’m supposed to have made. If I did it, I did it, but I don’t remember it.”

On this occasion Grevett, of Clarence Parade, Southsea, pleaded guilty to breaching a restraining order at Portsmouth Crown Court and was jailed for a year.