A Llanon man made “argumentative” telephone calls to the police in the early hours using the 999 emergency number, a court heard.

Paul Bythel, of Homerton, 2 Heol Non, pleaded guilty to making persistent use of the communication network on 10 September after making four 999 calls and one call to the non-emergency 101 number.

Prosecutor Kevin Challinor said the calls started just before 3.40am when Bythel phoned and told an operator that there was “no need to worry about me I got home”, before he became argumentative with the operator who terminated the call.

Thirty-year-old Bythel made two more calls shortly afterwards, where he started talking about cutting his finger and about a female friend being harassed by someone, before both calls were cut off because Bythel again became argumentative.

In the last call to the 999 number, Bythel told the police officer he spoke to, to stop phoning him and denied that he’d made the calls at all.

Mr Challinor said that Bythel then phoned the 101 number to say that he didn’t need the police.

Defence solicitor Alan Lewis said Bythel suffered with learning difficulties and that his issues are exacerbated when he has been drinking as he had been on that occasion.

He said that, while Bythel had been argumentative in the calls, he had not been threatening.

Mr Lewis said Bythel had previously been made the subject of a community order which Bythel said he had found useful.

Bythel was given a community order for 12 months with a curfew for 12 weeks, between 7pm and 6am, and 20 rehabilitation activity requirement days. He will also pay costs of £170.