A PERVERT who targeted a pensioner with sexual phone calls has been given a two-year supervision order.

Paul Devins from Hawick chose the 67-year-old woman's number at random and after asking to a speak to Debbie to get the woman talking, he made inappropriate comments about his manhood.

The court heard that the OAP, who suffers from ill-health and lives 80 miles away from Devins in Glasgow, told him he was disgusting and hung up.

She reported the matter to her nephew who tracked Devins' mobile phone number and warned him not to contact her again.

However the following night Devins again contacted the woman leaving six messages although none were of a sexual nature.

Procurator fiscal Graham Fraser told a previous hearing at Jedburgh Sheriff Court that Devins sent messages asking if she was alone.

The alarmed woman again told her nephew who contacted the police.

Devins - who is already subject to a two year Sexual Offences Order - pleaded guilty to a charge of sending text messages of a sexual nature and making inappropriate remarks from his home in Sandbed on April 17 and 18 last year.

When interviewed by police he said 'I was phoning people when I was drunk and I phoned that number. I thought I was being funny'.

He was given a two year community pay back order with supervision.

His name has been placed on the Sex Offenders Register for five years