Foot fetish man sentenced for making 1,263 nuisance calls to NHS advice line

A South East Coast ambulance outside Worthing Hospital (Steve Parsons/PA)

A 45-year-old man who made more than 1,000 nuisance calls to a NHS advice line to indulge his sexual foot fetish has been sentenced in the UK.

Richard Cove, a buyer, of Boundary Road, Worthing, was given a 16-week prison sentence suspended for two years at Worthing Magistrates’ Court after pleading guilty to making malicious communications through the false calls to the NHS 111 number provided by South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) in Sussex.