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Black Country man in court for phone call threatening to 'blow up' his local police station

A Brownhills man who phoned West Midlands Police and threatened to "blow up" a police station has been sentenced at court.

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Shane Harrison, who is 40 years old, made the phone call on May 24.

The defendant, of Medway Walk in Brownhills, was charged with sending a communication conveying an indecent or offensive message, in that he made a telephone call to West Midlands Police conveying a threat to cause distress or anxiety - namely that he would "blow up the local police station".