A fugitive who jumped into the sea, a stalker who suggested "dissecting" his victim and a caravan park thug were among defendants jailed in September. There was also a street robber who says she felt "guilt and shame" after her victim later died.

Judges felt their guidelines were such that they had to sentence these offenders to time behind bars. Here is a summary of some of the cases in our region which ended in imprisonment.

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Lloyd Lloyd

Lloyd Watson Lloyd, 28, of Llys Dewi Sant, Bangor, was jailed for a total of 20 months for offences including breaching a restraining order and common assault of an emergency worker.
Lloyd Watson Lloyd, 28, of Llys Dewi Sant, Bangor, was jailed for a total of 20 months for offences including breaching a restraining order and common assault of an emergency worker.

A man tried to get into his former partner's home despite a ban and smashed her BMW's windscreen, a court heard. Lloyd Watson Lloyd also assaulted a police officer by spitting at him and made vile comments at him when he was arrested.

Caernarfon Crown Court heard Lloyd, 28, of Llys Dewi Sant, Bangor, had been in a relationship with his ex since he was 16 but it ended in March this year. Lloyd was convicted of making threats to kill and a communications offence and was given a restraining order in July prohibiting him from contacting her.

But five weeks later police got a report that he was at her house in Maesgeirchen, Bangor at 6am on August 25, said prosecutor Michael Whitty. Police were called and an officer chased Lloyd.

Cameron Jones

Cameron Drew Jones, 22, of no fixed address, was jailed at Caernarfon Crown Court for 12 months for theft of a motor vehicle, six months for escaping from lawful custody, to run consecutively, and three months for each of two counts of driving whilst disqualified, to run concurrently to each other and the other sentences, making a total of 18 months.
Cameron Drew Jones, 22, of no fixed address, was jailed at Caernarfon Crown Court for 12 months for theft of a motor vehicle, six months for escaping from lawful custody, to run consecutively, and three months for each of two counts of driving whilst disqualified, to run concurrently to each other and the other sentences, making a total of 18 months.

A fugitive ran away from police and jumped into the sea off Anglesey sparking a call to the RNLI for help. Cameron Jones, 22, only came ashore when he realised he couldn't avoid being "rescued" and was arrested.

A judge heard the defendant had been wanted for stealing a Mercedes with a drone unit and dog unit previously deployed to trace him, without success. But justice finally caught up with Jones as he admitted a string of offences and was jailed for a total of 18 months.

Caernarfon Crown Court heard Jones, of no fixed address, took a man's Vauxhall car without permission on May 13. On May 30 he was seen driving it at a Heron petrol station in Llangefni.

Fotjal Mucaj

Fabjol Mucaj, 21, of no fixed address, was jailed for 22 months at Caernarfon Crown Court for being concerned in the production of cannabis.
Fabjol Mucaj, 21, of no fixed address, was jailed for 22 months at Caernarfon Crown Court for being concerned in the production of cannabis.

Bedri Eleze

Bedri Elezi, 36, of Lilley Road, Liverpool, was jailed for 24 months at Caernarfon Crown Court for being concerned in the production of cannabis.
Bedri Elezi, 36, of Lilley Road, Liverpool, was jailed for 24 months at Caernarfon Crown Court for being concerned in the production of cannabis.

Agron Aruci

Agron Aruci, 30, of no fixed address, was jailed for 22 months at Caernarfon Crown for being concerned in the production of cannabis.
Agron Aruci, 30, of no fixed address, was jailed for 22 months at Caernarfon Crown for being concerned in the production of cannabis.

Three men have been jailed after being caught at an £88,000 cannabis factory on Bangor high street. The offenders had bypassed electricity and had the plants over three floors of an empty shop, but police spotted them early one morning and moved in.

Agron Aruci, 30, Bedri Elezi, 36, and Fabjol Mucaj, 21, all Albanian nationals, pleaded guilty to being concerned in production of a controlled drug of Class B - cannabis - at the site. Prosecutor John Philpotts told the court police had been watching CCTV coverage of Bangor High Street on March 22 this year.

At 5am that morning they saw a small, white van parked outside an empty shop. Their suspicions were aroused because they knew the shop was unoccupied.

Daniel Cotterill

Daniel Cotterill, 35, of Stanford Court, Nuneaton, was jailed for 14 months for assaulting his then partner causing actual bodily harm in a caravan park in Dyffryn Ardudwy, Gwynedd.
Daniel Cotterill, 35, of Stanford Court, Nuneaton, was jailed for 14 months for assaulting his then partner causing actual bodily harm in a caravan park in Dyffryn Ardudwy, Gwynedd.

A man grabbed his partner by the "scruff of the neck" and punched her in a row at a North Wales caravan park. Daniel Cotterill and Kylie Saraci had argued about him taking their children to a playground without telling her.

Cotterill, 35, admitted assaulting the woman causing actual bodily harm in the incident at Dyffryn Seaside Estate in Dyffryn Ardudwy, Gwynedd on August 15. A judge at Caernarfon Crown Court noted a probation officer thinks he will continue to blame his victim and jailed him for 14 months.

Prosecutor Tom McLoughlin said Cotterill and the victim had been at the caravan park with their children. The adults had been drinking and during the evening the defendant took them to a park.

Kelly Lavelle

Kelly Lavelle, of the Rhyl area, was jailed for a robbery that took place in Wrexham centre
Kelly Lavelle, of the Rhyl area, was jailed for a robbery that took place in Wrexham centre

A street robber whose victim later passed away blames herself for his death, a court heard. Kelly Lavelle, previously of Rhyl, appeared at Mold Crown Court after admitting robbing Paul Williams.

Six months after the incident, Mr Williams died due to "self-neglect" and complications with his diabetes. The court heard Lavelle "feels enormous guilt and shame" and blames herself for his death.

The robbery of Mr Williams took place the day Lavelle had been released from prison for threatening to "beat" the unborn baby out of a pregnant woman before taking her bag. She was jailed for three years and eight months for her latest offence.

Gethin Jones

Gethin Jones, 37, of High Street, Llanberis, was jailed at Caernarfon Crown Court for 42 weeks for stalking a woman.
Gethin Jones, 37, of High Street, Llanberis, was jailed at Caernarfon Crown Court for 42 weeks for stalking a woman.

A stalker said he wanted to "dissect" his victim's body as "every part would be perfect" and that she could be a gym poster girl. During a ten-month campaign, Gethin Jones met the woman near her workplace and at her child's play centre but she repeatedly told him to stop his behaviour.

Caernarfon Crown Court heard his victim was left "nervous and upset" and felt "like a deer in headlights" whenever she saw Jones, 37. The defendant, of High Street, Llanberis, admitted stalking involving serious alarm or distress between December 2021 and November 2022 and was jailed for 42 weeks.

Prosecutor Oliver King said he once approached the woman in their Bangor gym and said "wow" before telling "he would love to dissect her body as every part would be perfect". Soon afterwards in January last year, he messaged her online to say he "couldn't get over how beautiful she was" and that "she took his breath away", said the prosecutor.

Barry Roberts

Barry Roberts, 41, of Tan Y Bryn Road, Maesgeirchen, Bangor, was jailed for 16 months for a shop burglary plus seven and a half months after a suspended sentence was activated.
Barry Roberts, 41, of Tan Y Bryn Road, Maesgeirchen, Bangor, was jailed for 16 months for a shop burglary plus seven and a half months after a suspended sentence was activated.

A shop burglar stole goods worth £7,000 but was caught after going back to fetch his rucksack containing his bank card. Barry Roberts, 41, had broken in through the roof of the mobile phone store on Bangor high street and used a headtorch to find his way around.

He stuffed mobiles and tablets from a storeroom into bags in a raid lasting 45 minutes before fleeing the same way. But Caernarfon Crown Court heard he went back at midday the next day to collect his rucksack which he had left behind.

Police were already on the scene investigating his burglary. They spotted him and arrested him.

Cezar Soare

Cezar Soare, 31, was jailed for 18 months at Caernarfon Crown Court for knowingly entering the UK in breach of a deportation order.
Cezar Soare, 31, was jailed for 18 months at Caernarfon Crown Court for knowingly entering the UK in breach of a deportation order.

A deported man caught at Holyhead had tried to get into the UK three times, a court heard. On this final occasion Cezar Soare, 31, who had previously committed offences in this country and been deported to Romania, had come from Dublin but was stopped at the Anglesey port.

He admitted knowingly entering the UK in breach of a deportation order in August. A judge at Caernarfon Crown Court jailed him today for 18 months.

Prosecutor Karl Scholz said Soare had been one of four people in a BMW car which arrived by ferry at the Port of Holyhead in the early hours of August 5. Border force officers checked his passport and found he was the subject of a deportation order issued on November 18, 2019.

Clayton Leech

Clayton Leech, 30, of Tryweryn Place, Wrexham, was jailed at Mold Crown Court for two years and four months for being concerned in the supply of cocaine.
Clayton Leech, 30, of Tryweryn Place, Wrexham, was jailed at Mold Crown Court for two years and four months for being concerned in the supply of cocaine.

A cocaine addict ended up becoming a dealer in what a judge described as an "all too familiar tale". Clayton Leech had become addicted to the Class A substance and was under pressure from people above him in the chain to sell cocaine from his home.

When police raided his house, they found drug dealing paraphernalia at his property, as well as clothes said to be worth £10,000. Leech, of Tryweryn Place, Wrexham, admitted being concerned in the supply of cocaine, possession with intent to supply cocaine, and possession of cannabis resin, a Class B drug.

A judge at Mold Crown Court jailed him for two years and four months. The court heard police executing a warrant had searched his home.

Nicholas Lloyd

Nicholas Lloyd, 47, of Rhosesmore, Mold, was jailed for 15 months at Mold Crown Court for stalking involving serious alarm or distress.
Nicholas Lloyd, 47, of Rhosesmore, Mold, was jailed for 15 months at Mold Crown Court for stalking involving serious alarm or distress.

An "arrogant and obsessive" man stalked his wife by setting up a security camera and hiding a device in her car to track her movements, a court heard. Nicholas Lloyd, 47, also falsely accused her of infidelity and threatened to kill her and their children on a trip to Lapland “to make life easier”.

Lloyd, of Rhosesmor, Mold, pleaded guilty to stalking involving serious alarm or distress. A judge at Mold Crown Court condemned the defendant's "sinister" behaviour.

He said the 47-year-old's actions over eight months up to June this year were "calculated and protracted". He was "sceptical" about the defendant's pledge to stay out of trouble in future and jailed him for 15 months.

Leon Mitchell

Leon Mitchell, 19, of Englefield Avenue, Connah's Quay, was sent to a young offenders' institution for a total of 52 weeks for offences including threatening to destroy cars.
Leon Mitchell, 19, of Englefield Avenue, Connah's Quay, was sent to a young offenders' institution for a total of 52 weeks for offences including threatening to destroy cars.

A teenager fell out with his girlfriend and threatened to torch her family's cars. Leon Mitchell, 19, had been immature, a court heard.

The defendant admitted a string of offences and a judge said they were so serious he had to be sent to a young offenders institution for a total of 52 weeks. Mold Crown Court heard that the threats had been "terrifying".

Prosecutor Patrick Gartland said Mitchell, of Englefield Avenue, Connah's Quay, had sent horrible messages on Facebook to try to find out who his girlfriend Carys Bateman was staying with at a Blackpool hotel on May 13. The following day he apologised.

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