A HOAX caller caused “havoc” for the emergency services after dialling 999 repeatedly during a heavy drinking session.

Victoria Makey made a spate of calls for an ambulance, despite the absence of a genuine emergency.

Bernadette Kearney, prosecuting, told New Forest magistrates that the calls were made from a house in Condor Close, Southampton, on August 28.

She added: “The defendant started drinking and began making needless calls to the ambulance service. They attended in relation to the first call but she became abusive and they left.”

Ms Kearney said police were alerted after Makey made call after call.

“When they arrived at the property the defendant was the only female present,” she said.

“Makey was very much in drink.

She was questioned about the calls but declined to make any comment.”

Makey, 26, of Sullivan Road, Southampton, admitted making seven nuisance calls.

Michael Carreras, in mitigation, said she started ringing the ambulance service after suffering an asthma attack that might have been caused by her heavy drinking.

He added: “It’s a sorry situation that the defendant finds herself in.

“The ambulance staff got a bit fed up with her continually pestering them. This sort of behaviour causes havoc for the emergency services.”

Makey was handed a ten-week jail term but was told she would not have to serve the sentence because she had spent 38 days remanded in custody, which would count as “time served”.

Makey is due to be sentenced at Southampton Crown Court today for assaulting a 13-year-old boy on a bus.

She has been convicted of racially aggravated battery after hitting the youngster for reporting her to the driver for smoking on the vehicle.