A "troubled" woman who made a series of nuisance 999 calls has been ordered to seek mental health treatment.

Bradford Crown Court was told how Michelle Dean, 26, stayed silent on the telephone after calling the emergency services on a number of occasions.

Prosecutor Joanne Butler-Savage said Dean, who has previous convictions for doing the same thing, made 12 silent calls from a phone box near her home on Netherlands Road, Odsal, in November.

She made further hoax calls from a public phone on Hall Ings a week later but was caught on cctv.

When officers arrived, they found Dean had cut her wrists and she was taken to Bradford Royal Infirmary.

In January Dean, who pleaded guilty to three counts of causing a public nuisance, made more silent calls from the Netherlands Road box and was again arrested.

Her barrister Nicola Peers told the judge her client was a very troubled young woman with a history of self-harming.

Miss Peers pointed out that she had already served the equivalent of an eight months sentence on remand and added that Dean now needed help to overcome her problems.

Recorder Helen Proops read a number of medical reports which highlighted Dean's mental health issues.

She was sentenced to an 18 months community order and told that she must comply with a mental health requirement for 12 months.

Recorder Proops told her: "I'm greatly concerned about this sort of behaviour. You must stop making these phone calls, I know you need help but making these phone calls is not the appropriate way."