A TEENAGE sex pest who used his mobile phone to bombard women with obscene calls was caught because he did not withhold his number.

Christopher Smith's distraught parents destroyed the phone to stop him making the calls, in which he asked women about their underwear and the size of their breasts, Worcester magistrates heard.

The 19-year-old Worcester carpenter admitted harassment, as well as five counts of using the telephone to make indecent messages.

Linda Jeffery, prosecuting, told how Smith contacted six different women between December last year and April.

She told how one of the victims managed to trace the calls back to him by dialling 1471.

"He made many phone calls," she said. "Some were sexually explicit, while others were silent. He said various things to them, and they all said they were shocked and upset.

"In one call he said 'Are you sexy? Are you sexy? Are you sexy?' In another he asked 'What's you're bra size?'"

She added that he has also made many more sexually suggestive comments, including asking the women about their breasts and talking to them about his genitals.

He was arrested and questioned by police on Friday, April 19, where he initially denied making the calls.

Dawn Cooper, defending, said her client was under a community rehabilitation order for similar offences.

"He knows he needs help and requires treatment," she said. "He has also been to his GP to ask for help and support."

She added that he had been to the sexual health advice unit and was looking for added support from the probation service to curb his offending.

His mother, who attended yesterday's court hearing, said she and her husband had confiscated the phone.

"We have taken the phone, taken out the sim card and cut it to pieces and then stamped on it," she said.

Magistrates sentenced Smith, of Winchcombe Drive, Warndon, to a two-year-long community rehabilitation order working with the probation service, on the condition that his particular mode of offending be addressed.

He was ordered to pay £50 compensation to each victim - a total of £300 - and ordered to pay £70 court costs.