A man was behind bars today after posing as a Marks & Spencer clothing researcher to make 15,000 sexually explicit phone calls to women. Paul Kavanagh, who claimed he was gathering market information for the retail giant, targeted many of his terrified victims at random in their homes during the evening.
Some, who were called repeatedly, ended up too scared to answer any of their calls. Each conversation started with a string of relatively innocuous questions about socks and cardigans, but soon moved onto the subject of their underwear and whether they were wearing thongs.
By the time they hung up he was usually detailing what he would like to do to them.
His "addiction" became so bad, that when a gym opened opposite his high rise flat in west London, he could not resist bombarding the receptionists he could see from his bedroom window with up to 16 phone calls a day.
He was finally arrested on July 24 this year, although not before he threw his phone out of the window. Fortunately, police recovered the handset intact and found evidence of nuisance calls stretching back to October 2005.
A significant number made from other phones were also linked to him because of his Marks & Spencer modus operandi. Officers later estimated he had made between 10,000 and 15,000 calls in just 20 months.
When interviewed, he admitted while they were for his own "sexual gratification", he was glad he had been caught so his "addiction" could be treated. He said he was "sorry" for what he had done.
Kavanagh of Westbourne Park Road, Westminster, who pleaded guilty to one count of causing a public nuisance, was due to have been sentenced at London's Southwark Crown Court today.
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