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November, 10

In a sensational judgment a man was sentenced two-and-a-half-year imprisonment for his abnormal act of making 15000 obscene phone calls to women. The accused allured women by claiming himself a researcher for Marks & Spencer, Paul Kavanagh 40 use to ask these women in the beginning few simple questions like about their socks and cardigans and then starts the dirty talking asking them about their underwear and giving them indecent suggestions. This act of public annoyance by Paul Kavanagh got apt treatment by the law and was sentenced imprisonment by the London’s Southwark Crown court here yesterday.

The Judge of the case Peter Testar said “It seems to me that the defendant was taking drink and cocaine and making these calls for the purposes of sexual gratification and, to my mind, for the purposes of cruelty.” It was seen that the way this accused use to call these women, he presented himself as if he is taking any survey with a set of questions which he asked them. After getting the details about the women he used to call them again and again, creating a sense of fear in the minds of these women.

In his statement accused Paul Kavanagh agreed to have been made about 15000 calls from October 1995. It was known that he used to make these calls from unregistered pay-as-you-go telephones, so that he leaves no clues for someone to trace him. But as all criminals leave clues by-mistake, he also gave police an essential clue when he told one woman that he liked the way her hair is today. In the same way he asked another woman some other thing giving some traces to police.

The victims whom Kavanagh targeted mostly used to feel unsafe and uneasy and threatened even to stay alone in home. These victims of the phone menace also feared of being followed by the accused, even the Judge agreed the fact that this incidence had an immense effect to these women. This telephonic harassment and obscenity was nothing a small act to get escaped with, and it cost the accused imprisonment and banning him to use his phone on the charge of anti-social behaviour for four years.

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