Dirty phone calls admitted

A man made sexually offensive remarks and sent indecent text messages to a series of women after dialling their mobile phone numbers, a court heard.

Four of the women Colin Crawford Boyd Logan contacted were health workers in Humberside whose business phones were called, Walsall Magistrates Court was told.

Mrs Liz Rispin, prosecuting, said Logan, aged 35, of Walsall Wood Road, Aldridge, had made more than 40 phone calls to victim Tina Mawer.

"The defendant had during the early hours of the morning selected random phone numbers which he called and subjected the recipients to numerous explicit and indecent words," she said.

"Tina Mawer received the first call at 2am when she was asleep. The caller sounded drunk and at first she thought it was a mistake or a prank so she hung up."

Logan's number was traced by police and he admitted making the calls. Yesterday he pleaded guilty to three counts of harassment and two counts of sending by means of public communications network a message that was grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character.

"I apologise for what I have done," he told magistrates. Sentencing was adjourned until February 2.