A man who launched a racist campaign where he called the police to report “white people for crimes against humanity”, has been spared jail.

Inderdeep Dev of Kensal Green Drive, Maidenhead, racially abused police call handlers during repeated phone-ins where he shared his warped views, a court heard.

The 41-year-old’s court hearing had to be delayed as a lawyer who offered to represent him was initially rebuffed on the grounds that he was white. 

Lawyer Michael Phillips told Reading Magistrates Court on Wednesday that Dev had handed him a list of 10 reasons why he did not want the hearing to proceed.

Mr Phillips said: “He believes that white people, generally, are deceitful as per difficulties with Boris Johnson and Donald Trump.”

Dev was due to be sentenced for persistently making use of a public communication network to cause annoyance, inconvenience or anxiety.

He had called the police control centre at Kidlington, Oxfordshire, five times on April 20 last year and then dialled 101 in excess of 15 times in 15 hours on July 10 and July 11.

Prosecuting, Alastair Yapp said: “The defendant became abusive to the call takers, swearing and using words to the effect of ‘I want to report white people for crimes against humanity. White people are my f***ing pets. F*** off from this country, white people do not belong in this county’.

“Due to the volume of calls and nature of calls, officers have attended the defendant’s home address and certain items were seized in order to find evidence in respect of the alleged offences.”

Dev had 11 previous convictions for 17 offences, one of them being a racially aggravated offence of causing alarm or distress. He had been on a community order, imposed on March 21 last year, at the time of his racist campaign.

Mr Phillips, who Dev had reluctantly permitted to represent him, told the court the defendant had been engaging with probation services. 

“I can say it really much stems from the organic personality disorder which is also related to the accident he had a number of years ago”, Mr Phillips told the court.

“His belief is there are a number of agencies and groups which are not working for him. I think he is someone who would be assisted by the probation services.”

District judge Samuel Goozee, sentencing, told Dev he would receive credit for his guilty plea.

“Your phone calls to the emergency services really can only be described as a campaign of calls towards the police, to whom you share little respect”, the judge said.

“You have entrenched beliefs about the police and those in authority. Your offensive and racist comments towards the police demonstrated hostility towards the police on the basis of their race. 

“You have what is described as an organic personality disorder. However, the psychiatrist expresses a very clear view that despite your mental health difficulties, you have the capacity to know what you are doing and to know what is legally wrong.”

Judge Goozee said that he would follow the recommendation of probation and spare Dev jail so he could continue receiving support to address his issues.

Dev was handed an 18-week prison sentence, suspended for 18 months. He was ordered to complete 30 Rehabilitation Activity Requirement Days and pay £213 in costs.

Before leaving court, Dev told the judge: “Thank you for recognising that this is a campaign against police corruption.

“It was nothing personal against the call handlers. This is me taking a stand against police corruption.”

Judge Goozee fixed Dev with a hard stare before commenting: “I did not describe it as a campaign against corruption, I described it as a campaign.

“Mr Dev, this is an aggravating factor. Not a factor to be proud of.”

Dev left court with his father.