A 62-year-old man who denied making nuisance 999 calls has changed his plea to guilty.

Christopher McEvoy also pleaded guilty to a new charge of provoking behaviour.

He will be sentenced on November 12, after a probation report has been prepared.

Prosecuting advocate Harry Bellis told magistrates that McEvoy was arrested on July 15.

A neighbour, at the flats on Peel Road in Douglas, where McEvoy lives, reported that he had been banging on her door.

She said he was shouting: ‘I f***ing want you. I’m going to have you.’

Another resident called the police, which resulted in McEvoy being arrested.

The woman whose door he'd banged on provided a victim statement, in which she said McEvoy had moved in two months ago.

She said he'd ‘made everyone's lives a misery’, and that she had been shaken up by him banging on her door.

Mr Bellis said: ‘Behaviour of this nature can have a massive impact on people.’

On September 4, emergency services received three 999 calls from McEvoy.

In the first call, he said he wanted to contact Manannan Court, and was given the number.

He then called again making the same request, and was told he had the number, but was given it again.

He then made a third call, saying he couldn’t get through to Manannan Court, and asked to be put through.

Mr Bellis said that McEvoy was a regular before the courts for similar offences.

Defence advocate Andrew Baker said that the defendant had spent 24 days on remand, and was transformed from a couple of weeks ago.

Mr Baker said that McEvoy was healthier, and was working with a social worker.

The advocate said that McEvoy was going to be moved to a new property by Douglas Council.

Bail was granted.