Police said they were 'stumped' as to why Clair Frost sounded the false alarm, leading to multiple emergency services on the scene.
A nursery school early years educator whose hoax 999 call sparked a major search of a Scottish loch has been spared jail. Clair Frost, 35, sounded the false alarm from a landline at Killin Nursery School, Perthshire .
The Scottish Fire Service was considering putting a boat out to search the “vast” and partially ice-covered loch – an operation which would have entailed further risks. Frost's husband, a retained firefighter, was called out as part of the search, which was stood down after six hours when realisation dawned that the call was a hoax.
Solicitor Virgil Crawford, defending, said Frost, a first offender, still maintained her innocence, but accepted she had been convicted. He said she now suffered from anxiety and was receiving sick pay from her work. During the trial, the court heard that the call was received by Scottish Fire and Rescue at 1.15pm on January 17, 2024. It was traced to a fixed phone in a nappy-changing room at the Stirling Council-run nursery. Initially police thought a child at the nursery – which caters for 0 to 5 year-olds – might have been responsible.
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