A pervert who harassed women with hundreds of obscene calls, explicit text messages and pictures of his genitalia has appeared in court.

Terry Pulley called eight women he did not know on their landlines or mobile phones, contacting one victim 49 times.

At Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court yesterday (April 7) prosecution barrister Claire Hill said: “It’s aggravated by the sheer volume of calls.”

She said Pulley, a 47-year-old from Bell Drive in Southfields, would tell the women he was performing sex acts on himself - asking one to “listen to this” - or send them indecent pictures.

One women’s daughter picked up the phone to one of his calls, before passing it on to her mother.

The calls were made, and messages sent, between June 16 and October 17 last year.

The former bricklayer had suffered his mother’s bereavement and begun using amphetamines in the months leading up to the calls and messages, his barrister said.

Pulley used his own phone to make the calls, and through this he was eventually traced by the police. When he was interviewed on November 26 last year he immediately admitted contacting the women, and later apologised for his actions.

He was given a three-year community order, with requirement to join a sexual offenders’ programme. He was also given a restraining order banning further contact with any of his victims, and ordered to pay £85 in court costs.

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