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Ashley Hall made a hoax 999 call to get a co-worker into trouble in Burgess Hill A HOAX caller tried to land a co-worker in trouble by claiming he was brandishing a machete. Ashley Hall sparked an armed police call out in Burgess Hill when he made the false 999 call. He was claiming he had seen a work colleague waving a machete out of a car window and reported the vehicle registration. But 26-year-old Hall did not tell police he knew the victim and was simply trying to spite him over a workplace row. Armed police arrested the shocked victim in Brighton and interviewed him, but found he had no weapon, and had not been in Burgess Hill at the time.
DESPITE Tier 4 coronavirus restrictions telling people in Sussex to stay at home this New Year s Eve, police in the county still had plenty to do. Sussex Police provided updates on social media throughout the evening, with incidents including a man carrying a machete in Crawley, a dramatic car chase in Brighton and Covid rule breaches on Hove beach.
These are just some of the incidents Sussex Police dealt with last night:
The aftermath of the minibus crash Credit @slurpinpig
1. PC Glen McArthur of the Sussex Roads Policing Unit attended a crash in the early hours of this morning A minibus which was transporting workers for their shift careered over a roundabout leaving the vehicle heavily damaged.