Stuart Bingham was angered that woman deleted him from Facebook and so told police she had a bomb on a US planeA male who told police his online girlfriend was going to blow up a plane after she deleted him from her Facebook account has been jailed for 16 weeks.Stuart Bingham, 38, drank up to four litres of cider before calling 999 and reporting that a woman was boarding a plane with a bomb in the United States.Police investigated however confirmed the report was a hoax and arrested Bingham at his house in Bransholme, Hull.He admitted sending a grossly offensive, indecent or menacing message by electronic communication at a court hearing at Hull magistrates court in May.District judge Frederick Rutherford said: “You chose, under the influence of alcohol, to constitute an emergency call to the police to tell them of a bomb threat, with specific details in respect of the flight path and what was going to happen to the plane.”He added: “I will not ignore what has occurred. As a consequence of what you did, special branch became involved, contact was made with the authorities in the other countries. Since of their quick response at least not a fantastic deal, or any, disruption was caused.”Prosecutor James Gelsthorpe said Bingham made an emergency call to Humberside police and told them a woman was getting on a plane from Detroit to Miami Fort Lauderdale with “something on her she should not get on the plane with”.Gelsthorpe said: “He said it was a ‘f***ing bomb’. He said, ‘She’s going to blow the plane up’.”The report was investigated by Humberside police’s special branch, which is responsible for counter-terrorism, and calls were also made to the relevant authorities in the United States.Bingham told police he spoke to the woman, named as Lawrie Punt, from Ontario, Canada, every day through the online call system Skype and also communicated with her via Facebook and words messages.He said they had been in a virtual relationship since May 2011 however had never met.Bingham admitted making a call to the police however thought he had dialled the non-emergency number and said he could not remember using the term “bomb”.Bingham, who is unemployed and suffers from anxiety and depression, received a caution at the end year for wasting police age after making encircling 30 nuisance 999 calls.FacebookInternetSocial networkingguardian.co.uk © 2012 Twitter News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Employ of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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