A PROLIFIC phone pest who bombarded police with time-wasting calls just days after being released from jail - for doing just that - is back behind bars.

Despite having a court order forbidding her to pester Hampshire Constabulary, Suzannah Grevett persistently called the non-emergency 101 number wasting 42 hours of precious police time and valuable resources.

The calls started just eight days after she have walked free from prison, having been locked up last year for harassing police with 374 calls in just over two months.

Southampton Crown Court heard that on each occasion the 44-year-old called to complain about various police officers, accusing them of spreading lies about her.

The calls started eight days after she was released from prison on December 10, last year, and continued through to January 10, wasting a total of 42 hours of police time.

Prosecutor Robert Forrest told the hearing that the calls were made from a mobile phone, which was phone on Grevett when she was arrested by officers.

She refused to be interviewed by police and pleaded guilty to nine counts of breaching a restraining order that prohibited her from calling the emergency services unless it was a genuine emergency.

As previously reported, Grevett, previously of Rockstone Lane, was jailed in November last year, for three months, after she was found guilty of two charges of persistently making use of a public communication network to cause annoyance and assaulting a police officer.

Southampton Magistrates Court heard how she bombarded police with hundreds of calls, whether it was to inform the control room of what she was going to do that day, complained about TV company Love Productions filming Immigration Street or asking to take up residency in Ocean Village.

The hearing heard at the time that the calls began after her conviction for an assault, which she viewed as a miscarriage of justice.

Representing herself at the crown court, Grevett, who had 24 convictions for 59 offences since 2011, said she was calling 101 to pass on information she had uncovered during her own under-cover investigations into corruption.

She said each time she called 101 she asked if they were recorded and only spoke once that was confirmed.

Judge Nicholas Rowland told the court he desperately wanted to delay sentencing so that a psychological report could be carried out but Grevett refused and he sentenced her to 12 months in prison for each count to run concurrent.

He said: “This is prolific offending. You know full well you shouldn't be ringing police, wasting their time and valuable resources.”