The emergency services received 15 nuisance calls in the space of four days from one man.

Questions about where island police are trained and demanding repairs be carried out to his bedroom window were two of the reasons for the calls.

Jonathan Richard Fletcher, of Derby Road, has admitted making the calls and will be sentenced on September 18 after a probation report has been completed.

Prosecutor Barry Swain told the court Fletcher called ’999’ a total of 15 times between August 2 and 6.

Fletcher, aged 50, told the operator if police didn’t come to repair the window - which he said they had broken while arresting him for him on a separate matter - he would call again.

Meanwhile, Fletcher, admitted a charge of affray, which happened on August 6 when officers were on their way to Fletcher’s flat to investigate the ’999’ calls.

While on their way to his property, Fletcher’s landlord called police saying that Fletcher had attempted to attack him and a joiner with a claw hammer.

When police arrived at the scene they were told that the landlord had been performing maintenance checks with a joiner.

The landlord said Fletcher had changed the lock on the door and had told him that it would have to be changed back. Fletcher asked if he was going to be evicted and was told by the landlord that he would be lodging papers with the court.

Arrested

Fletcher was then said to have held a hammer above his head and angrily shouted: ’You best get an ambulance and the police.’

Fletcher was arrested and told police: ’It’s not in my nature to approach my landlord with a claw hammer.’

He handed in a prepared statement saying that he believed he was going to be evicted and he believed it was unlawful so he was simply making a complaint to the police.

Mr Swain said that there was no specific reference to alcohol but that Fletcher had told police he had been drinking prior to committing the offences.

Defence advocate Paul Rodgers entered a basis of plea on behalf of his client in which Fletcher said that he had been genuinely concerned he was going to be evicted and had called the police to complain.

He said he waved the hammer to get the two men to leave and accepted he made inappropriate calls.

Mr Rodgers said that Fletcher had previously been receiving psychiatric assistance but had no received any for six months.

An application for bail was refused by Deputy High Bailiff Jayne Hughes .