Shell Island tourist and ‘depraved’ sex offender among those jailed last month – North Wales Live

Fake modelling agency conmen, a man who smashed up a ticket machine and a dangerous driver were among criminals jailed in North Wales in September. Others included a Shell Island tourist and a drug dealer.

Judges felt their offences were so serious that they deserved terms of imprisonment. Some had already been given a chance by the courts, but reoffended and were sent down.

Here is a summary of these cases from last month.

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A man who rammed a police car during a dangerous high-speed chase told a judge he "didn't really care" about being jailed. Adam Ashley Challoner, of East Green in Sealand, "used his vehicle as a weapon" during the chase, Mold Crown Court heard.

Prosecuting, Karl Scholz, told the court how Challoner was spotted by police driving a silver VW Golf in the Chester area at around 1am on July 9 this year. It was said that the occupants were wanted for failing to stop after a crash.

The car was followed back to Flintshire, into Sealand and Garden City, by a police car which had requested back-up to help in detaining the people inside the vehicle. As the car approached Foxes Lane, they "must have" become aware of the police following them, said Mr Scholz, as the car sped up and drove away heading back in the direction of Chester.

A cyclist was left needing a hip replacement after an angry motorist crashed into him and then left the scene. Robert Hughes, of Ffordd Hiraethog in Mostyn, admitted causing serious injury by dangerous driving at Mold Crown Court. He was jailed for 16 months.

Prosecuting, Sarah Badrawy, told the court how Hughes, 52, was driving his silver Mercedes along the A494 between Denbighshire and Flintshire a week before Christmas - on December 19 last year. He encountered Keith and Jackie Godfrey - a husband and wife who set off from their home in Ruthin for a bike ride.

She said that there had been a "very quick verbal exchange" between the two men after Hughes passed the couple with "less than a foot" between them, before the incident took place.

A man smashed up a ticket machine with a piece of railway ballast because a "voice in his head told him to". Aldo Tamburrini had been trying to get the computer out of the vending machine at Prestatyn Station.

But while on bail for that offence, the 57-year-old defendant then burgled a priest's home and bought alcohol using his stolen bank cards. A judge at Mold Crown Court noted Tamburrini was vulnerable but said it was his public duty to deal with him and sent him to prison for 876 days.

Prosecutor Nicholas Williams said the defendant, of Caradoc Road, Prestatyn, was seen entering Prestatyn Station in the early hours of April 22 this year. CCTV footage showed him going onto the tracks and picking up a piece of ballast which he used to "smash the ticket vending machine" on the platform. He caused a total of 14,702.78 damage.

Two conmen were jailed over a scam involving getting intimate pictures of women for cash.

A number of women were "duped" by another woman supposedly called Gemma Wright, who supposedly ran a modelling agency called Shining Star. Prosecutor Rosemary Proctor told the judge at Mold Crown Court that Gemma Wright did not exist and was in fact the two defendants.

Oliver Pendleton, of Clwyd Avenue in Abergele, admitted to fraud as well as having a computer to perform function with intent to secure authorised access. Jason Maguire, of Caradoc Road in Prestatyn, faced the same charges alongside eleven breaches of his sexual harm prevention order and six charges of creating indecent images.

A member of a criminal gang who flooded North Wales with cannabis was jailed. Jake Kiernan, of Vicarage Lane in Rhuddlan, pleaded guilty to conspiring to supply Class B drugs - cannabis, and got two years and eight months' imprisonment.

Prosecuting, Andrew Jones, told a judge at Mold Crown Court how a covert police operation had identified that the defendants were part of a wider organised crime group who were bringing cannabis into North Wales from across the border in Merseyside. He said that Kiernan, 30, was heading up the gang and had the responsibility for sourcing "multiple kilograms" of cannabis from an upstream supplier named Hadyn Pendleton in Liverpool.

The court heard how "security conscious" Kiernan used "at least" 10 different mobile phone numbers over the course of the conspiracy to avoid the detection of the police. Mr Jones said that Kiernan would send "couriers" he trusted over to Speke to collect the cannabis from a contact for onward distribution.

A 29-year-old man who claimed he struck a teenager after unpleasant comments were made by a group of lads was jailed. Michael Bowes, of Princes Street, Rhyl, had been under a suspended sentence.

District judge Gwyn Jones at Llandudno Magistrate Courts said his record and use of violence justified custody. "This was gratuitous use of violence upon a young person," said the judge.

Bowes admitted common assault on September 5 at Rhyl and having cocaine. Thirteen weeks of the suspended sentence were activated and twelve weeks imposed for the attack, making a total prison term of 25 weeks.

A holidaymaker breached a court order by going on a trip to North Wales with his partner. Stephen Rhodes, 47, went to the Shell Island campsite in Llanbedr despite there being a restraining order preventing him from contacting her.

While there, he also became drunk and disorderly and police had to be called but he obstructed an officer, Caernarfon Magistrates heard. Rhodes, of Western Way, Bradford, West Yorkshire, admitted breaching a restraining order and several other offences.

He was jailed for a total of 82 weeks. The court heard that a member of Shell Island's security team had told North Wales Police about a drunken man at the campsite just after midnight on September 2.

A sex offender was caught on camera peering through windows in the early hours of the morning. His actions were described as "unsettling" by a judge, who jailed him for two years.

Brandon Hughes, of no fixed abode, appeared before Mold Crown Court having breached a sexual harm prevention order that came into force after he was caught performing sexual acts upon himself whilst looking through the window of a home in Rhyl, said prosecutor Sarah Badwary.

She told the court how the ban was supposed to prevent Hughes from loitering outside residential properties without good reason or entering the boundaries of homes without express permission. Despite this, the 23-year-old went out into Denbigh on May 2 this year and ignored those conditions.

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