A 31-year-old woman from Shavington who made over 160 hoax calls to police and set fire to a flat in Crewe has been jailed.
Polly Swindail, of Sable Road, Shavington, appeared at Chester Crown Court today (Friday 26 July) where she was sentenced to 12 months in prison.
Detectives are urging Nantwich and Crewe residents to be vigilant following a spate of hoax calls from scammers claiming to be police officers acting on behalf of HMRC.
Officers have received 12 reports since June 2 of people receiving calls from someone purporting to be from Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC).
Alleged “threats” made against Brine Leas School in Nantwich are hoax, police have said.
Officers were called in after the “threats” were reported as being posted on social media sites including Instagram and Snapchat.
Police say the discovery of human remains at a cottage near Nantwich is being treated as a ‘hoax’.
Members of a paranormal group contacted police in the middle of the night after claiming to have found a human bone behind a wall of the derelict cottage in Newhall, off the A530.
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