An Aberystwyth man who called in a fake 999 call to police has been fined by magistrates.

Malcolm Edwards, of Parc Graig Glais, Upper Queens Road, appeared before Aberystwyth Magistrates’ Court on 8 July.

The 57-year-old pleaded guilty to a charge of causing wasteful employment of police on 20 June this year in Aberystwyth “by knowingly making to the police emergency telephony system a false report to give rise to apprehension for the safety of persons or property.”

Magistrates fined Edwards £40.

He must also pay prosecution costs of £85.