AN OCKENDON man has been jailed after attempting to carry out a bogus kidnapping scam.
A court heard that on the 13th October, 2014, Paul Emery, 32, Dart Green, South Ockendon: " Dishonestly made a false representation, namely inventing a kidnapping to obtain money from his father."
Emery, who pleaded guilty to the charge, was sentenced to seven weeks in prison.
He was also made the subject of a restraining order preventing going near an address in Grays.
He was also fined £225.
