Nuisance caller cost the taxpayer £78,000 by making 408 calls to the ambulance service in two years

Nuisance caller cost the taxpayer £78,000 by making 408 calls to the ambulance service in two years A woman who cost the taxpayer £78,000 by phoning ambulance service more than 400 times in two years has been jailed.

Mariette Mcharg, 54, also cost the health service a further £94,611 in unscheduled care.

She was sentenced to six months in jail for a number of offences including the assault of an officer and the assault of two nurses. The Daily Telegraph