IPhone 4S contact numbers still showing up after being deleted?

I just recently got my iPhone 4s and when i transferred contacts over, some numbers in there were my friends old phone numbers. Not knowing this at the time i texted them and later found out that wasn't their number. After adding their new number into contacts and deleting their old number I went to messages to send them a new message. When I search their name in the new message dialogue box to add them to reciepients I get multiple numbers for them. I get their new iPhone number, and then numbers that say other that are the numbers I deleted because they were wrong. Does anyone know how to delete those old numbers permanently? They don't show up in any of my contacts, just in the new message centre.

Delete any conversations you have with their old number in the Messages app, and then it shouldn't come up anymore. If you don't want to delete them - just make a new conversation with their new number and make sure you go to the right one (will then always be the one nearest the top as you aren't using their old number anymore).

Hopefully that makes sense and solves your problem!

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