Evening Telegraph (First Edition)

Hoax caller’s ‘vile’ sexual comments

- BY CIARAN SHANKS

A MAN who told 999 call handlers he was James Bond before making “vile” sexual remarks has been locked up.

Mateusz Dolegowski bombarded the police control centre with drunken hoax calls claiming to be Bond actors Sir Roger Moore, Pierce Brosnan and Timothy Dalton.

The 20-year-old also admitted threatenin­g to rape women during a meeting with social workers.

He said: “That’s what men do when they are under the influence.”

Dolegowski is now behind bars after a sheriff locked him up for more than 500 days.

Dundee Sheriff Court heard that before the offences, Dolegowski had been placed on a lengthy community payback order for other crimes.

Fiscal depute Gavin Burton told the court: “The accused refused to provide his name.

“He said his name was James Bond and he had an emergency.

“He said an evil person had been pursuing him for a number of weeks. He said he had a gun.

“The conversati­on continued with discussion­s about James Bond. He indicated he would like female company.”

The court heard Dolegowski’s calls became more lewd and he repeatedly made sexual comments to female call handlers.

He was later arrested by police following a call when he said he was Pierce Brosnan in McDonald Street and “thought he was going to die.”

In response to being cautioned and charged, Dolegowski, of Dighty Gardens, laughed and replied “brilliant”.

He admitted persistent­ly dialling 999 between March 26-27 before making sexual remarks.

Dolegowski made the threat to rape at Friarfield House, Barrack Street, on September 30.

Defence solicitor Nicky Brown said Dolegowski, now a prisoner at HMYOI Polmont, had significan­t difficulti­es with alcohol abuse, combined with autism and depression.

“He’s a vulnerable man and he will be extremely vulnerable in the custodial setting,” she told Sheriff Lorna Drummond QC.

“He’s like a coiled spring and once he has access to alcohol he becomes vile. That’s the only word I can use to describe it.”

Sheriff Drummond sentenced Dolegowski to a total of 503 days of detention and placed him on the sex offenders register for five years.

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