14 DAY TRIAL // Dariusz Ganski, 27, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for hacking into public phone booths and making free calls worth around $15,000 (12,000 EUR).
According to prosecutors, cited by This Is Bristol, Ganski made around 648 calls, totaling 43 hours, by using a router to tap into a BT phone box in Kelston, North East Somerset, in the period between October 27 - November 1, 2011, and February 27 – March 8, 2012.
BT knew that something was amiss when it detected a lot of unpaid calls being made to premium numbers.
Authorities took fingerprints from the booth in Kelston and set up a CCTV camera at another location in Kingswood that Ganski was suspected of using to make calls.
He was apprehended after he had tried to make a getaway near a third box in Brislington that was being stalked by the police
This is not the first time when the man is jailed for such offences. In April 2011, he was sent to prison after he had tapped into landlines trying to sell fraudulently obtained credit to online gamers.