A WOMAN cost the ambulance service £15,000 after making 100 bogus calls to NHS 24.
Denise Sinclair also turned up at Glasgow’s Royal Infirmary on more than 150 occasions in just a year.
The 29-year-old rang 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, pleadd guilty to a charge of repeatedly calling the emergency services when no reason existed.
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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