Connah's Quay man jailed for 20 weeks after assaulting woman
The 27-year-old had previously admitted one offence of criminal damage and had been found guilty in his absence of one offence of assault by beating.
Prosecutor Rebecca Ross told the court that the victim in the case was a woman named Katherine Walker.
In the early hours of June 8 this year, she called police to report the defendant was at her home in Northop Hall and had "beaten her up."
When officers attended, she pointed to her bruised eye and said "look what he has done to me."
However she did not let the officers document the injury and told them the defendant had left the scene - following which they left.
Ms Walker did call the police again a short time later to say Hughes-Lewis had returned, and the officers re-attended.
But she would not let them in when they got there and said once again he wasn't there.
Officers did eventually gain access to the property and found the defendant within.
Hughes-Lewis was handcuffed and placed into a police vehicle, where he banged his head on the window and spat, which required cleaning to rectify.
The court heard his actions during the above incident also put him in breach of a domestic violence protection order (DVPO) - and the offence on June 8 was not his first against Ms Walker.
Ms Ross told the court North Wales Police was seeking to impose a DAPO (Domestic Abuse Protection Order) for a period of 12 months in order to prevent the defendant from seeing or contacting the victim.
Gary Harvey, defending, told the court: "This is a case where the alleged victim did not provide any evidence or statement whatsoever and was reluctant to get involved in the process.
"He has the previous offence against the same victim and when he is released from prison, she seeks him out.
"She will probably do that again, despite already having a DVPO.
"She will not leave him alone, and the worry about the DAPO is that she needs to be told by the police that she can't have anything to do with him."
Mr Harvey said his client continues to deny the assault (for which he was found guilty in his absence.)
"Owain has mental health problems," he added.
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"In addition to ADHD he has anxiety and depression and he's suffered greatly since he's been [in custody]."
The Magistrates noted the defendant's failure to comply with court orders and his breach of the DVPO in committing the latest offence, in addition to the fact it was not the first he'd committed against her.
As such, the Bench jailed Hughes-Lewis for a total of 20 weeks and ordered him to pay £665 costs, as well as a £154 victim surcharge
Furthermore, the court did impose a DAPO for a period of two years, the conditions of which are not to contact Katherine Walker and not to go within 100 metres of a specified location in Northop Hall, as well as not to input any data about her on social media.
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