A DRUNKEN Kent man who made a bomb hoax call four days after the July 7 atrocities in London has been jailed for nine months.

Scott Monks, 37, downed 24 cans of larger, before making the 999 call from his home in Ethelbert Road, Margate.

He told the emergency services on July 11 that a device had been planted "at RTN", a court heard.

Prosecutor Alastair Keith said the police had no idea what RTM was - but managed to track the call to Margate.

Officers found Monks drunk and apologising for what he had done, Canterbury Crown Court was told.

He told officers that he had made the hoax call "to get back at his former partner" because of a domestic incident.

Oliver Saxby, defending, said the court had to decide whether the call was made "out of idiocy or something more sinister".

He said that as RTM was unrecognisable as a location - no-one had been put in fear.

Monks had admitted making the call immediately "and apologised profusely" to police officers.

But Judge Anthony Webb told Monks, who admitted a charge of making a bomb hoax call, that it had been done within days of the London attacks when "the population at large was on a heightened state of awareness of the dangers of explosives".

He added that he accepted it had been "an idiotic act" but a sentence needed to be passed which would deter others.

"People who come before these courts for this type of offence will go to prison - there are no buts about it."