A hoaxer who told police the IRA had strapped a bomb to him has been jailed.

Alexander Murdoch drunkenly called 999 on March 24 from his flat on Main Street in the Hilltown, Dundee.

He told a call handler a bomb was in his flat and was "liable to explode or ignite".

Dundee Sheriff Court heard that during a lengthy call Murdoch claimed he "didn't want" to have the alleged bomb on him and that it had been strapped to him by the IRA.

Prosecutors said he had acted "with the intent of inducing in police the false belief that a bomb or other thing liable to explode or ignite was present" in his flat.

Murdoch, 33, pleaded guilty on summary complaint to a charge of communicating information with the intent of inducing a false belief that a bomb was liable to explode.

His not guilty plea to a second charge under the Communications Act was accepted by the Crown.

Sheriff Alastair Brown jailed Murdoch for 13 months, including three months for committing the offence while on bail.