Student jailed for 999 hoax call

Anthony Ellitts made the call from a telephone kiosk

A West Midlands teenager who made a hoax emergency call on the day of the London bomb attacks has been jailed.

Anthony Ellitts, 19, of Wolverhampton, admitted making a 999 call on 7 July saying there was a bomb at Stourbridge bus station.

The town centre was evacuated and the bomb squad was mobilised.

Jailing him for three years and ten months Judge Mark Eades said it was difficult to envisage worse circumstances to make such a threat.

Ellitts, a student of Showell Road, Low Hill, pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to a single count of communicating false information.

The court was told he was already on probation for a similar offence.