A drunk father repeatedly dialled 999 and said he was a “big fan of the IRA” and would blow up a police station.

Darrell Parker rang the emergency number seven times in one afternoon and abused the call handler after officers had arrived at his ex-partner’s home.

The 44-year-old, of Hearthway, Banbury, was sentenced at Oxford Crown Court on Monday after earlier admitting sending an abusive communication and breaching a suspended sentence.

Parker, who has 89 previous offences, including being jailed for a bomb hoax, broke a suspended sentence handed down in April 2010 for possessing an offensive weapon and causing actual bodily harm.

Prosecutor Trudi Yeatman said of the incident on February 6: “The defendant made a call to his ex-partner and mother of his child to say he would call round with a birthday present for his son.

“There had been a history of domestic violence, so she called the police.”

Miss Yeatman said Parker left the scene and made seven 999 calls between 5.09pm and 9.45pm.

She said: “He told police to get out of the house or he would rip their heads off. He was being abusive to the operator, calling them pigs and suchlike.

“He threatened to stick a sledge hammer through the window of and take the child away. In call six he states he’s a very big IRA supporter... and that he would blow the police station up.”

Alistair Grainger, defending, said Parker was drinking “five to six cans of strong lager, topped with two two-litre bottles of cider a day”.

Recorder Burrows admitted “showing a degree of leniency to give this final opportunity” and sentenced Parker to a year’s supervision with a specified activity which will be decided upon by the probation service.