Judge dismisses phone harassment case against student

A student who admitted making a series of harassing phonecalls to his secondary school teacher had the case against him dismissed under the Probation of Offenders Act today.

The high-profile case involved defendant Karl Hudson (aged 20) of Tower Lodge, Blackrock, Cork harassing Presentation schoolteacher Patrick O'Shea by persistently phoning him with upsetting calls between February 17 and April 15 2000.