THE FORMER chairman of Ukip in Scotland has plead guilty to making a string of vulgar phone calls to women.

Arthur Misty Thackeray, 55, admitted carrying out 10 sexual offences charges between October 2007 and December 2015 involving 10 different women.

All of the calls took place at his home in Glasgow’s east end, at 1 Colme Street, Edinburgh and “elsewhere”.

UKip Scotland leader and MEP David Coburn’s office is at the same address in the capital.

Phone records revealed Thackeray made a call to a taxi company arranging a lift from his former office to Haymarket train station on the same night some of the calls were made.

On Monday Thackeray plead guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court to nine charges of intentionally sending, or directing “sexual verbal communication” between December 1, 2010 an December 19, 2015.

One charge pre-dates the Sexual Offences Act brought in in 2009 and was a breach of the peace charge between October 2007 and February 2008.

The court heard none of the women know Thackeray or how he got their numbers, but it is believed he took some from posters advertising slimming classes and one from a sales advert in a shop window.

Procurator fiscal depute Mark Allan said a 25-year-old female received a text from Thackeray talking about meeting at a swinger’s club.

She called him and he apologised and said he had the wrong number, then sent a message saying “You sounded really nice on the phone, do you know what I would like to do to you?”

Her partner then pretended to Thackeray the woman was a 14-year-old girl to make the calls stop.

The new mum later told police she was “terrified”.

He phoned four of the women on December 18, 2015 including a 33-year-old he asked inappropriate sexual questions to.

Sheriff Martin Jones QC deferred sentence until next month and continued bail.