NEIN, NEIN, NEIN... FAR RIGHT FIGURE'S 3 FALSE 999 CALLS

Man who was pictured wearing 'neo-Nazi t-shirt' jailed for wasting police time

- By PATRICK EDRICH

A “FAR-right journalist” and convicted racist football thug made three false calls to 999 and claimed it was for his “protection”.

Ryan Ferguson, 25, made three calls to the emergency services in November of last year and told the call handler that he needed the police because three men were fighting.

However, when Merseyside Police attended on the first occasion, the only person being hostile was the defendant himself, and by the third incident, officers didn't dispatch anyone to the scene at all because they recognised Ferguson's phone number as the one used to make the fake reports.

A magistrate at Liverpool Magistrates' Court told the defendant he had created “a fictitious incident to spark a significant response from the police”.

The court heard last week, that on November 8, 2024, Ferguson “called 999 from a mobile number and reported three males fighting”.

Anthony Carey, prosecuting, said: “Officers attended and found a male matching the description who was hostile to officers. This male was the defendant.”

The court heard four police vehicles had been dispatched to the scene on Bank Road in Bootle and officers carried out enquiries but residents had said no incident had taken place.

Two days later, Ferguson (pictured) made two further calls to 999 to request the police, firstly to Everton Brow and then to Bayhorse Lane in Liverpool's city centre, alleging again a similar incident to before of three males fighting.

Mr Carey said in the first instance a police vehicle was sent and an “intense search” was carried out, but no disturbance was found.