A TEENAGER who was stopped by British Transport Police after fitting the description he gave to officers in a hoax 999 call has been jailed.

Ashley Kieron Baldwin, of Gill Crescent South, Fencehouses, Durham, rang the police to say there was a man with a gun at Faversham Railway Station, in Kent, in February 2017.

Armed police then stopped Baldwin because he matched the description he gave to them.

Officers discovered he had made the call from his mobile and there was no gunman.

The 19-year-old pleaded guilty to wasting police time at Newton Aycliffe Magistrates Court yesterday.

He also pleaded guilty to being drunk and disorderly at a hotel in Folkestone in July, assaulting a policewoman in August, failing to comply with a community order and failing to surrender to police following bail in December.

James Fenny, mitigating, said his client had pleaded guilty to the charges at the earliest opportunity and already spent more than a week in custody.

Magistrate Dr David Shallow revoked Baldwin's community order and resentenced him for the original three malicious communications charges it was initially issued for.

Dr Shallow sentenced hiim to 12 weeks for the malicious communications and gave him a further six weeks for assaulting the policewoman and ordered him to pay her £200 compensation.

He also gave him a four week sentence for wasting police time but said it would run concurrently and there were no separate penalties the charges of being drunk and disorderedly or failing to surrender to police bail.